Garrulax courtoisi Ménégaux, 1923:98
Blue-crowned laughingthrush, Courtois’s laughingthrush
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Garrulax galbanus courtoisi Ménégaux, 1923:98
Conservation Status
Last record: 1919
Rediscovered in 2000
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, China (eastern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ménégaux, M. A. (1923) Description du Garrulax courtoisi nov. sp. de la Chine. Rev. Franc. Orn. 8(169): 98.
Other references:
Berlioz, J. (1930). Revision systématique du genre Garrulax Lesson. L’Oiseau 11: 1-27, 78-105, 129-159.
BirdLife International 2013. Garrulax courtoisi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 04 July 2015.
BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Garrulax courtoisi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 04/07/2015.
Chen, Hao et al. (2022). Genomic signatures and evolutionary history of the endangered blue-crowned laughingthrush and other Garrulax species. BMC Biology 20: 188. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01390-4
Cibois, Alice et al. (2018). Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy. Zoologica Scripta. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12296
Collar, N. J. 2006. A partial revision of the Asian Babblers (Timaliidae). Forktail: 85-112.
Collar, N. J.; Gardner, L.; Jeggo, D. F.; Marcordes, B.; Owen, A.; Pagel, T.; Vaidl, A.; Wilkinson, R.; Wirth, R. (2012). Conservation breeding and the most threatened birds in Asia. BirdingASIA 18: 50-57.
Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. 2011. Conservation of Blue-crowned Laughingthrush Garrulax courtoisi in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province School Education Project in Wuyuan Final report. Hong Kong.
La Touche, J. D. D. (1923). A handbook of the birds of Eastern China. Part 1. London: Taylor and Francis.
Liu, Tao et al. (2022). Multiple lines of evidence confirm that the critically endangered Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is an independent species. Avian Research 13: 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100022
Long, A., Crosby, M. and Inskipp, T. (1994). A review of the taxonomic status of the Yellow-throated Laughingthrush Garrulax galbanus. OBC Bull. 19: 41-48.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Wilkinson, R.; Gardner, L. 2011. No laughing matter. Zooquaria: 12-13.
Wilkinson, R.; He Fen-qi; Gardner, L.; Wirth, R. 2004. A highly threatened bird - Chinese Yellow-throated Laughing thrushes in China and in zoos. International Zoo News 51: 456-469.
Wilkinson, R.; He Fen-Qi. 2010. Conservation of Blue-crowned Laughing-thrush Garrulax courtoisi in Wuyuan, Jiangxi, and the search for 'lost' populations in Yunnan and Guanxi, China. BirdingASIA 13: 100-105.
Wilkinson, R.; He Fen-qi. 2010. Le garrulaxe de Courtois: conservation in situ. CEPA Magazine: 12-17.
Wilkinson, R.; He Fen-Qi. 2010. Yellow-throated Laughingthrush Garrulax galbanus and Blue-crowned Laughingthrush G. courtoisi - new observations and interpretations on their taxonomy. BirdingASIA: 73-82.
Yuan-hua, H., Fen-qi, H., Worth, R., Melville, D., Zheng, P., Xia-zhi, W., Gui-fu, W. and Zhi-yong, L. (2003). Little-known oriental bird: Courtois's Laughingthrush Garrulax galbanus courtoisi. Oriental Bird Club Bulletin 38: 35-40.
Zhang, Weiwei, Shi, Jinze, Huang, Huiqin and Liu, Tao. (2017). The impact of disturbance from photographers on the Blue-crowned Laughingthrush ([i]Garrulax courtoisi[/i]). Avian Conservation and Ecology 12(1): 15.
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