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whistling-thrush

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  • The endemic green-billed coucal and Sri Lanka whistling-thrush (Myiophonus blighi) are considered threatened.

    Sri Lanka lowland rain forests 2008

  • At first I took this for a Himalayan whistling-thrush.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Himalayan whistling-thrush looks very like a cock blackbird.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Very different in habits and appearance from any of the babblers mentioned above is the famous Himalayan whistling-thrush

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • I once saw a pair attack and drive away from the vicinity of their nest a Himalayan whistling-thrush (_Myiophoneus temmincki_) -- another bird that frequents hill-streams, and a near relation of the Malabar whistling-thrush or idle schoolboy.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

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