#laughingthrush

photograph by Uday Wandkar

Week one of September 2025 #BirdArtWeekly hosted by @migratorymay is the rare Bugun Liocichla, first spotted in 1995 and described as a species in 2006. Due to it's scarcity, no type specimen was collected. Instead, some feather samples were used as the type specimen.

Pterorhinus sannio

April 16, 2026 - Orange-billed Babbler or Sri Lankan Rufous Babbler (Argya rufescens) Found in southwestern Sri Lanka, these babblers live in forests, scrub, and cultivated areas. They eat mostly insects, along with some fruit, foraging in groups of around 15 birds, often with other species. Breeding from March to May, they build loose cup-shaped nests from grasses, small twigs, and leaves in small trees or creepers. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs.

Chestnut crowned laughingthrush, Senchal, October, 2025

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Fuckin’ birds, man