Endangered
Orange-breasted laughingthrush
Garrulax annamensis
Orange-breasted laughingthrush is a perching bird in the family Leiothrichidae (order Passeriformes) — Garrulax annamensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Vietnam.
Appearance
It is a medium-sized bird with a strong bill and legs and a fairly long tail. It is 24–25 cm long with a bill length of 25–27 mm, a wing length of 83–92 mm and a tail length of 88–100 mm. It is mostly plain brown apart from an orange stripe over the eye, a black throat and an orange breast with black streaks.
Range and habitat
Xenocanto: orange-breasted laughingthrush, recordings of song and call The orange-breasted laughingthrush is a passerine bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is endemic to Vietnam where it occurs in the Da Lat Plateau in southern Annam. It inhabits montane forest between 915 and 1510 m above sea-level and can survive in degraded habitats such as secondary forest and cultivated land close to forested areas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
It is classified since 2024 as Endangered by BirdLife International, particularly because the species is susceptible to lose large percentages of the global population rapidly.
Orange-breasted laughingthrush is 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 Orange-breasted laughingthrush, Wikidata item Q1930728. 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.
