Kerala laughing thrush

Kerala laughing thrush
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23/02/2016
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PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #629... OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...KERALA LAUGHINGTHRUSH... WATERCOLOUR...A4.. 2016...[From the photograph of MR. Pranjal J. Saikia] ... The Kerala laughingthrush (Trochalopteron fairbanki) is a species of laughingthrush endemic to the hills of the Western Ghats south of the Palghat Gap in Southern India. Found in the high montane forests, this grey bibbed, rufous bellied bird with a prominent dark eyestripe and broad white brow was grouped along with the grey-breasted subspecies of the black-chinned laughingthrush and known as the grey-breasted laughingthrush. The nominate subspecies is found in the Palni Hills and meridionale with a shorter white brow is found in the high hills south of the Achankovil Gap. This species has a dark grey-brown crown and narrow dark grey eyestripe with a broad white supercilium above it. This supercilium extends behind the eye in the nominate subspecies but stops above the eye in subspecies meridionale. The throat is dis

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