Greater necklaced laughingthrush

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| image = Garrulax pectoralis - Kaeng Krachan.jpg

| image_caption = In Thailand

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International. |year=2024 |title=Pterorhinus pectoralis |volume=2024 |page=e.T22715611A264198331 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22715611A264198331.en |access-date=21 February 2025}}

| taxon = Pterorhinus pectoralis

| authority = (Gould, 1836)

| synonyms = Ianthocincla pectoralis
Garrulax pectoralis

}}

The greater necklaced laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis) is a species of passerine bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. It is introduced to the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus.{{ cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=A. | last2=Gelang | first2=M. | last3=Alström | first3=P. | last4=Pasquet | first4=E. | last5=Fjeldså | first5=J. | last6=Ericson | first6=P.G.P. | last7=Olsson | first7=U. | year=2018 | title=Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=47 | issue=4 | pages=428–440 | doi=10.1111/zsc.12296 | s2cid=51883434 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Laughingthrushes and allies | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/laughingthrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=18 January 2019 }}

Behavior and ecology

In mixed-species foraging flocks, greater necklaced laughingthrushes tend to be dominant. Mimicry in lesser necklaced laughingthrushes of greater necklaced laughingthrushes may have been selected for as a result.{{Cite journal |last1=Gosai |first1=Kamal Raj |last2=Zhou |first2=Liping |last3=Liu |first3=Yang |last4=Braun |first4=Edward L. |last5=Kimball |first5=Rebecca T. |last6=Robinson |first6=Scott K. |last7=Jiang |first7=Aiwu |last8=Goodale |first8=Eben |date=2024-04-10 |title=Investigating flock-associated mimicry: examining the evidence for, and drivers of, plumage mimicry in the greater and lesser necklaced laughingthrush |journal=Royal Society Open Science |language=en |volume=11 |issue=4 |doi=10.1098/rsos.230976 |pmid=38601036 |issn=2054-5703|pmc=11004677 |bibcode=2024RSOS...1130976G }}

Gallery

Image:Greater Necklaced Laughing-Thrush.jpg

Image:Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush RWD3.jpg|At San Diego Zoo

Image:Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush SMTC.jpg|At San Diego Zoo

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