Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush

The Ashy-headed Laughingthrush is a rangy bird, 23 centimetre in length with a long floppy tail. It is rufous brown above and deep buff below, with a grey head and white throat. Like other babblers, these are noisy birds, and the characteristic laughing calls are often the best indication that they are present, since they are often difficult to see in their preferred habitat.

The Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush, Ceylon Blue Magpie, White Headed Starling, Ceylon Hill Mynha, Legge's Flowerpecker. The clear cut roads in to the jungle provide easy access to the forest. This important forest is a Man and Biosphere Forest reserve and it is considered as a World Heritage Site. More

Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush's nest was found only in 1984. It was on a thin tree about 15 feet high. It was an untidy football-sized mass of twigs and leaves with a neat nest-cup on top. The turquoise-blue eggs are measure about 25x18 mm. Locations It is confined to the deep forests of the wet zone and the adjacent mountains where, on the southern and western aspects of the main range, it ascends to at least 5,000 feet. More

Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush is a rare bird and its conservation status is stated as 'vulnerable' in the BirdLife International Red Data Book of 2001. www.imarketspace.com www.lanka.info www.continentalresidencies.com www.ceylincoproperties.com www.ppilk.com www.singersl.com www.crescat.com www.peaceinsrilanka.org www.helpheroes. More

Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush - Just like its name suggests, it has a hysterical laugh with an ashy head and brown body found in lowland rainforests. 3. White-faced Starling - Found in a few wet-zone forests, this rare bird it has a sharp call often feeding with mixed-species feeding flocks. 4. Red-faced Malkoha - Possessing a guttural call, these surprised-looked red-faced birds are found in the remaining tall forests like Sinharaja in which the male has brown irides and the female has white. More

Ashy-Headed Laughing Thrush is a rare bird and its conservation status is stated as 'vulnerable' in the Bird Life International Red Data Book of 2001 Photo by Ashoka Jayarathne Web news article: "Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush - an endemic & rare bird" Sunday Observer Sri Lankan news paper, 29 February 2004 www.sundayobserver.lk - "How do birds talk to one another?" Web news article:Sunday Observer, Sri Lankan news paper, 18 April 2004. More

Brown-capped Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush, Ceylon Blue Magpie, White Headed Starling, Ceylon Hill Mynha, Legge's Flowerpecker... Location: Sabaragamuwa Nearest Town: Ratnapura More about this wildlife sanctuary or national park Sri lanka Directory. More