Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus courtoisi), recorded as Critically Endangered
Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus courtoisi). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Critically Endangered

Blue-crowned Laughingthrush

Pterorhinus courtoisi

Blue-crowned Laughingthrush is a perching bird in the family Leiothrichidae (order Passeriformes) — Pterorhinus courtoisi, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to China.

Status
Critically Endangered
Scientific name
Pterorhinus courtoisi
Recorded from
China
Taxonomy
Aves · Passeriformes · Leiothrichidae · Garrulax

The perching bird

Blue-crowned Laughingthrush is a perching bird in the family Leiothrichidae (order Passeriformes) — Pterorhinus courtoisi.

Range and habitat

It is now found only in Jiangxi, China.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Habits

The specific name was chosen to honour the French missionary to China Frédéric Courtois (1860–1928).

In crisis

The nominate subspecies was only rediscovered in 2000, in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi, but remains very rare with a total wild population of approximately 200 individuals. Currently, it seems close to extinction at least in the wild, and its status was thus corrected to critically endangered in the 2007 Red List issue.

Blue-crowned Laughingthrush is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, Wikidata item Q62079997. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Blue-crowned Laughingthrush?
Blue-crowned Laughingthrush is a perching bird in the family Leiothrichidae (order Passeriformes) — Pterorhinus courtoisi.
What is the conservation status of Blue-crowned Laughingthrush?
Critically Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Pterorhinus courtoisi. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Blue-crowned Laughingthrush live?
It is now found only in Jiangxi, China.
Why is Blue-crowned Laughingthrush in crisis?
The nominate subspecies was only rediscovered in 2000, in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi, but remains very rare with a total wild population of approximately 200 individuals.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Pterorhinus courtoisi?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Blue-crowned Laughingthrush a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.