Scarlet-faced Liocichla
Liocichla ripponi
Garish medium-sized laughingthrush-like bird. Olive overall with a bright red face and wing panels. Note pale eyes. Furtive and shy, typically foraging in dense undergrowth, often in mixed flocks, but also often singly or in pairs. Favors dense hill forest. Song is a repeated “chew-chew-weee?-chew”; gives dry rattling calls.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Liocichla ripponi
- Authority
- (Oates, 1900)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Leiothrichidae
- Genus
- Liocichla
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- declining
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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