Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris) | Photos and ID

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Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 1 — Photo: Kai Squires · CC BY 4.0

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 2 — Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 3 — Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 4 — Photo: Forest Botial-Jarvis · CC BY 4.0

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 5 — Photo: Ian Dugdale · CC BY 4.0

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Ben Costamagna, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black Laughingthrush (Melanocichla lugubris), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Black Laughingthrush

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black Laughingthrush

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Malaysia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Thailand.

About the Black Laughingthrush

The black laughingthrush is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in highland forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Until recently, it usually included the bare-headed laughingthrush as a subspecies.

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Easily confused with

Bare-headed LaughingthrushMelanocichla calvaThe bare-headed laughingthrush is 25–26 cm (9.8–10.2 in) long, with both sexes similar in appearance.

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