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White-crested laughingthrush
Garrulax leucolophus · Family Leiothrichidae
Garrulax leucolophus
Family Leiothrichidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Leiothrichidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 53,758
- Countries and territories with records
- 22

About this species
This species has 53,758 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (39.9%), Thailand (24.3%), Singapore (10.6%), Cambodia (7.9%) and Nepal (7.5%); together they account for 90.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.035% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Garrulax leucolophus combines the genus name Garrulax with the species epithet leucolophus. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Garrulax; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Garrulax canorus, Garrulax taewanus and Garrulax monileger.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 119 species of the family Leiothrichidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Argya striata. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (24,267). The family Leiothrichidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.