White-crested Laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus)

Bukit Batok, Singapore

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Garrulax
Species: G. leucolophus

Binomial name Garrulax leucolophus
(Hardwicke, 1815)

The White-crested Laughingthrush, Garrulax leucolophus is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia.

I took the photo in Bukit Batok, June 2008. Singapore, There’s many of them observe the food on the ground floor and they also not really afraid of human.

Source:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-crested_Laughingthrush

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