Giant Laughingthrush

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Timaliidae
Genus:	Garrulax
Species:	G. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The Old World babblers or timaliids are a large family of mostly Old World Passerine Birds They are rather diverse in size and coloration The Laughingthrushes are the genus Garrulax of the large Old World babbler family of Passerine Birds They occur in tropical maximus

Binomial name

Garrulax maximus
(Verreaux, 1870)

The Giant Laughingthrush (Garrulax maximus) is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The Old World babblers or timaliids are a large family of mostly Old World Passerine Birds They are rather diverse in size and coloration It is found in China and India. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Its natural habitat is temperate forests. A habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits" is an Ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular Species. A forest is an area with a high density of Trees There are many definitions of a forest based on various criteria

References

BirdLife International 2004. Garrulax maximus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.

External links

Giant Laughingthrush videos on the Internet Bird Collection