The laughingthrushes are a family of mostly Old World passerine birds. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The entire family was previously included in the Timaliidae, the Old World babblers. Some birds in Leiothrichidaeare are called babbler's.

They are small to medium sized birds. They have strong legs, and many are quite terrestrial. They typically have generalised bills, similar to those of a thrush. Most have predominantly brown plumage, with minimal difference between the sexes, but many more brightly coloured species also exist. They are vocally noisy birds.

The Leiothrichidae are divided in this presention as follows
Babbler: babax, babbler, chatterer
Fulvetta : cutia, fulvetta
Laughingthrush: babax, hwamei, laughingthrush
Other : barwing, leiothrix, liocichla, mesia, minia, sibia



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This section includes barwing, leiothrix, liocichla, mesia, minia, sibia.

Genus Actinodura
The Barwings are so name because the have numerous bars on their wings.

Barwing,_Black-crowned Actinodura sodangorum  Found: Laos, Vietnam
Image by: 1, 2) trananhtuan_78


Barwing,_Hoary-throated   Actinodura nipalensis  Found: northen parts Indian subcontinent (Bhutan, India, Tibet, Nepal)
Image by: 1,2) Francesco Veronesi - Bhutan   2) Dibyendu_Ash - India  3) sylvere corre  4) ) Francesco_Veronesi


Barwing,_Rusty-fronted   Actinodura egertoni  Found: Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Image by: 1, 2) Dibyendu Ash - India  3) Pkspks  4) Ron_Knight


Barwing,_Spectacled  Actinodura ramsayi  Found: China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Image by JJ Harrison - Chiang Mai Thailand  2) Jason Thompson  3) Naturelly - Thailand


Barwing,_Streak-throated   Actinodura waldeni  Found: China, India, Myanmar
Image by: 1, 2) LonelyShrimp  3) Koshy_Koshy - India  4) Sivaramakrishnan 


Barwing,_Streaked   Actinodura souliei  Found: China, Vietnam
Image by: 1) Dong Lei


Barwing,_Taiwan  Actinodura morrisoniana  Found: China, Taiwan
Image by:  1, 2, 3) Hiyashi Haka  4) Robert tdc 



Genus Crocias - 1 species

Crocias, Gray-crowned   Crocias langbianis Found: Vietnam
Image by: 1) abcdefgewing 


Crocias, Spotted  Crocias albonotatus  Found: Java of Indonesia
Image by:   1) Nicolas Le Jeune  2) Ralph Jordan



Genus Heterophasia

Sibia,_Beautiful  Heterophasia pulchella  Found: China, India, Myanmar Image by: 1) Yathin S Krishnappa  2) gkrishna63  3) Hiyashi_Haka  4) Mark_Gurney


Sibia,_Black-headed Heterophasia desgodinsi Found: China, Laos, Vietnam
Image by: 1, 2) Marcel Holyoak - China  3) Hiyashi_Haka


Sibia,_Dark-backed  also  Black-backed Sibia  Heterophasia melanoleuca  Found: China, Myanmar, Thailand
Image by: 1) Jerry_Oldenettel - Thailand  2, 3) JJ Harrison in Chiang Mai, Thailand  4) Marcel_Holyoak


Sibia,_Gray   Heterophasia gracilis   Found: China, India, Myanmar
Image by: 1)  LonelyShrimp   2) Raju_Kasambe - India


Sibia,_Long-tailed  Heterophasia picaoides  Found: Asia
Image by: 1) Francesco Veronesi  2) Kevin LIn - Malaysia  3) budak - Malaysia


Sibia,_Rufous  Heterophasia capistrata  Found:  northern parts Indian subcontinent
Image by: 1) Shrikant_Ranade - India  2) Francesco_Veronesi - Bhutan  3) Shrikant_Rao - India   4) DIck Daniels - mountains of Nepal  
4) identified by Charlie Westerinen


Sibia,_Rufous-backed Heterophasia annectans  Found: Himalayas to south-central Vietnam
Image by: 1) Jason_Thompson - Thailand  2) Jerry_Oldennettel - Thailand  3) Lynne_Hertzog - Thailand
1) H. a. annectans 4) H. a. mixta


Sibia,_White-eared  Heterophasia auricularis  Found: China and Taiwan Image by: 1, 2) Hiyashi Haka  3) Andy Li   4) n027449k



Genus Leiothrix

Leiothrix, Red-billed also Peking Robin Leiothrix lutea  Found: Asia, Hawaii (introduced)
Image by: 1, 2) Sandy Cole - the North Carolina Zoo   3, 4) Dick Daniels - the North Carolina Zoo  5) Dick - National Aviary   6) Pat and Keith Taylor - Pu'u O'o Trail off Saddle Road, Hawaii



Mesia,_Silver-eared  Leiothrix argentauris  Found: Asia Image by: 1, 4) JJ Harrison - NakhonSawan,Thailand  2) Francesco_Verones  3i  Marc Haisenko - Munich's Tierpark (Zoo) Hellabrunn 
1) Female 3) Male



Genus Liocichla

Liocichla,_Bugun   Liocichla bugunorum   Found: India Image by: 1) Edweed  2) Pinned


Liocichla,_Gray-faced  also Omei Shan Liocichla  Liocichla omeiensis  Found: Sichuan, China Image by: 1) Kevin Hughes  2) Esbelme


Liocichla,_Red-faced  Liocichla phoenicea  Found: Asia Image by: 1) Kevin_McGee  3) Dave_Curtis  4) Jason_Thompson - Thailand


Liocichla,_Scarlet-faced  Liocichla ripponi  Found: southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam Image by: 1) Jason_Thompson - Thailand  2) JJ Harrison in Chiang Mai, Thailand


Liocichla,_Steere's  Liocichla steerii  Endemic to Taiwan
Image by:  1) Hiyashi Haka   2) Francesco_Veronesi  3) Charles Lam  4) John and Fish 



Genus Minla

Minla,_Blue-winged also Blue-winged Siva  Minla cyanouroptera also Actinodura cyanouroptera  Found: Asia
Image by: 1) Dr Caesar  2) Koshy_Koshy  3) Sumita Roy Dutta - India 4) Dibyendu_Ash - India 


Minla,_Chestnut-tailed  also Bar-throated Minla  Minla strigula also Actinodura strigula  Found: India to Malaysia
Image by: 1, 2) J Harrison - Chiang Mai. Thailand  3) Jason_Thompson - Thailand  4) Francesco_Veronesi - Bhutan


Minla,_Red-tailed  Minla ignotincta  Found: India, southeast Asia
Image by: 1) Dibyendu_Ash - India  2) Sp Herp  3) Francesco Veronesi  4) Godbolemandar