Endangered
Collared laughingthrush
Trochalopteron yersini
Collared laughingthrush is a perching bird in the family Leiothrichidae (order Passeriformes) — Trochalopteron yersini, recorded as Endangered and tied to Vietnam.
The perching bird
Perching birds: the largest bird order. A species may be a babbler, a sparrow, a manakin, or a leafbird.
This is a named wild bird with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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
Collared 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 Collared laughingthrush — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q27075541. 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.
