Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush
Myophonus blighi(Holdsworth, EWH, 1872)
English (US) Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush
The Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush (Myophonus blighi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: mountain ravines of Sri LankaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Myophonus blighi
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush
- Described by
- (Holdsworth, EWH, 1872)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Arrenga blighi
- Described by
- (Holdsworth, EWH, 1872)
- Type locality
- 'Nuwara Eliya' ; corrected to banks of the Lemastota oya, 4,200 ft., Haputale District (Uva), by Legge, 1880, Birds Ceylon, p. 464.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872, pt.2 p.444 pl.19
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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