Blue Whistling-thrush

Blue Whistling-thrush
in Royal Agricultural Station, Ang Khang, Mon Pin, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Turdidae
Genus:	Myophonus
Species:	M. caeruleus
Binomial name
Myophonus caeruleus (Scopoli, 1786)

at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.

The Blue Whistling-thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) is a species of thrush in the family Turdidae. At 178 grams (6.3 oz) and 33 cm (13 inches), it is believed to be the world's largest species of thrush. It feeds mainly on insects.^[1]

It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Notes

1. ^ Astley, HD (1903). "The Blue Whistling Thrush Myiophoneus temmincki". Avicultural Magazine 1 (6): 196–201. http://www.archive.org/stream/aviculturalmagaz01avic#page/196/mode/1up. 

References

• blue whistling thrush at the Avibase
• Myophonus caeruleus at Animal Diversity Web of the Chicago University
• Morton Strange: A photographic guide to the birds of Southeast Asia including the Philippines & Borneo. Princeton University Press 2003, ISBN 9780691114941, p. 305 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
• Jason A. Mobley: Birds of the World. Marshall Cavendish 2008, ISBN 9780761477754, p. 654 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
• BirdLife International 2004. Myophonus caeruleus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007

External links

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