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Endemic Species White-whiskered Laughingthrush
Yellow Tit
Endemic Sub-Species
More Birds in Taiwan
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White-whiskered Laughingthrush Garrulax morrisonianus
Endemic
A large (26 cm) brown laughingthrush with prominent long white supercilium and moustachial stripe. Crown gray, scaled white; sides of face and chin are brown; throat and nape are brown and scaled with gray edges. Belly gray, vent chestnut. Wings and tail are a slaty blue-gray with basally yellowish-brown edges to outer feathers and yellowish-brown edges to primaries. Sexes similar. Iris, blackish-brown; bill, yellow; legs, pinkish-brown. Distributed along central mountain range. Quite common from 1,800–3,900 m to tree line most of the year, descending to lower elevation of 1,000 m in winter.
Very tame. Lives in pairs or small parties in scrub, bamboo
thickets and the edges of forest clearings. White-whiskered Laughingthrush, also known as Taiwan Laughing Thrush, Formosan Laughing Thrush, Yushan Laughing Thrush is a common resident. Local common name: four eye-browed thrush.
References: Endemic Species of Taiwan, compiled by Greenland Ecology Conservation Association of R.O.C.
www.gio.gov.tw/info/ecology/English
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