Uttarakhand's Jatoli village hosts a gaggle of White throated Laughing Thrushes in the early winter, when there is a shortage of air-borne insects and bugs need to be searched for in hidden places.
The White-throated Laughingthrush (Garrulax albogularis) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family.
It is found mainly in the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent, primarily the Himalayas, and some adjoining and disjunct areas. It ranges across Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion. The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion. The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion . For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as rare and local, possibly even extinct in Pakistan; common and widespread in Nepal, abundant in Bhutan, frequent to very rare in India, fairly common to locally common in China and locally uncommon in Vietnam.
Source: http://www.birdlife.org/
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