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Trochalopteron affine
Diet
Fruit and nectar (SoIB guild)
Habitat
Forest
Range
Eastern Himalaya from eastern Nepal to Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar, with Bhutan and south-eastern Tibet; small disjunct populations in continental Southeast Asia
The black-faced laughingthrush is a bird of the family Leiothrichidae found in the Eastern Himalaya. Its range extends from eastern Nepal eastwards to Arunachal Pradesh in India and further to Myanmar, with Bhutan and south-eastern Tibet, and small disjunct populations also exist in continental Southeast Asia (Wikipedia, general species account).
The cached account is short and gives no description, measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant forest bird that eats fruit and nectar, with a Restricted range of about 23,000 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).