Ianthocincla bieti Oustalet, 1897
White-speckled laughingthrush, Immaculate laughingthrush, Biet's laughingthrush
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Garrulax bieti (Oustalet, 1897:163)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1989
Rediscovered in: 2008 (Anderson & Dymond, 2008)
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution & Habitat
south-west Sichuan Province & north-west Yunnan Province, China
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Oustalet. (1897). Bull.Mus.Hist.Nat.Paris 3 p.163
Other references:
Anderson, B. and Dymond, N. (2008). White-speckled Laughingthrush Garrulax bieti rediscovered in Sichuan, China. BirdingASIA 9: 94-95.
BirdLife International. (2001). Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
BirdLife International. (2016). Garrulax bieti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22715675A94464674. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22715675A94464674.en. Downloaded on 14 February 2017.
BirdLife International. (2025). Ianthocincla bieti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T22715675A248130865. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T22715675A248130865.en. Accessed on 27 March 2026.
Cibois, Alice, Gelang, M., Alström, P., Pasquet, E., Fjeldså, J., Ericson, P. G. P. and Olsson, U. (2018). Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy. Zoologica Scripta 47(4): 428-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12296
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Eaton, J. A. (2024). Little-known Asian Bird: Immaculate Laughingthrush lanthocincla bieti. BirdingASIA 41: 49-53.
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)]