Orange-winged Elliot's Laughingthrush
Passeriformes > Warbler > Genus Noisy Grebe
Description: Medium-sized (26 cm) noisy stork. The body is roughly grayish brown , with dark and white margins on the upper back and thorax that form scaly markings. The face is darker. Yellowish brown on the buttocks and lower abdomen. The base of the primary flight feathers is yellowish and the feathers are blue-gray, forming markings on the wings. The tail feathers are grey and white, and the outer feathers are yellowish.
The subspecies preswalskii has a paler crown and a heavier brown underparts, with wing spots and caudal margins slightly reddish rather than yellowish.
Iris - light milky white; mouth - brown; feet - brown
Calls: Long, two-syllable and trisyllabic calls and the squeaks of birds.
Range: Endemic to central China to southeastern Tibet and northeastern India.
Distribution: Nominate subspecies occur in the southward journey from DabaShan, Qinling and Minshan mountains to western Sichuan, southeastern Tibet and northwestern Yunnan. The subspecies preswalskii is distributed from the Qilian Mountains in northern Gansu to the east of Qinghai. It is common in understory vegetation of all forest types at altitudes of 1200 to 4800 meters.
Habits: Feeding in small groups in open secondary forests and understory vegetation and bamboo bushes in shrublands.
This atlas is photographed in Jiuzhaigou with the wind