Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Malabar Whistling-Thrush
Myophonus horsfieldii
- epik
- 65 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Known to early naturalists as the Whistling Schoolboy, piping clear rambling tunes above the monsoon torrents of the Western Ghats. A brilliant blue forehead set into a body of deep indigo.
- Populasi
- Global population size has not been formally quantified; described as fairly common across the Western Ghats but scarcer/local in the Eastern Ghats, with a suspected slow decline (1-19% over three generations) linked to forest loss
- Habitat
- Dense riverine/moist tropical-subtropical montane forest with dark undergrowth, typically along rocky hill streams and rivers; also uses secondary growth and plantations; occurs from the foothills up to about 2,200 m elevation (occasionally reaching the plains in the monsoon)
- Fakta menarik
- Its rich, meandering whistled song — often likened to a person casually whistling a tune while strolling — has earned the Malabar Whistling-Thrush the local nickname "Whistling Schoolboy," and it is the state bird of Kerala.
- Sebaran
- Endemic (breeding) to peninsular India: the Western Ghats south of the Surat Dangs, the Satpura Range extending into Chhattisgarh, northwestern Odisha (including Similipal), and locally in the Eastern Ghats; non-migratory but disperses more widely in winter
- Makanan
- Omnivorous: insects, earthworms, snails, crabs, and small frogs, plus fruit (drupes, wind-fallen figs, berries); occasionally recorded taking small snakes
- Ukuran
- 0,275 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,38 m
- Masa hidup
- 4,3 tahun
