Trochalopteron subunicolor
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The scaly laughingthrush (Trochalopteron subunicolor) is a bird species in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
BirdLife International 2004. Garrulax subunicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2000. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Langtang National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scaly Laughingthrush sighting in Langtang National Park on a given day, based on 23 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 132nd most-seen of the 225 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scaly Laughingthrush in Langtang National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April, June–October and December–February, the lowest months. Those are among Langtang National Park's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain a month against 390 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scaly Laughingthrush sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Langtang National Park, in our data
Langtang National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Scaly Laughingthrush sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Trochalopteron
The closest relatives of the Scaly Laughingthrush that you can see in Langtang National Park (genus Trochalopteron, Trochalopteron Laughingthrushes) are Streaked Laughingthrush (about 60%), Variegated Laughingthrush (about 40%) and Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scaly Laughingthrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Langtang National Park (23 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
