There are three Laughingthrush you can in Sabah. The Sunda is one of the two common birds you can encounter almost everywhere in KNP. Usually in a flock of half dozen or more and at times together with Chestnut-headed. The rarity is the Bare-headed ........................
I really do not know why the two former Laughingthrushes are so buddy-buddy. I guess they are of the same size and feeding in large number has its advantageous. They would feed on the ground and at middle storey rather than at canopy level ala the Treepie.
24–25 cm in size the Sunda LT is a dull slate-grey medium-sized laughingthrush with greyish face and dull chestnut back and wings. This is Nominate race G. p. schistochlamys of Borneo & Sumatera. The other subspecies have a dark face. The eye have a obvious pale bluish eye-ring and that it. Easy id rite.
LT are very vocal and they are curious enough to pop out in the open whenever there is activity of noise amongst birds. You can says they are busybody and inquisitive.
On the last day we were in KNP we missed to see the Bald-headed which was seen by a visiting couple along the Road to Timpohan in the late morning. Lucky fellows................It was a matter of right time and right place to see any lifers in KNP as the site is too wide to be at every locale.
