Species profile
Malabar Whistling-thrush
Myophonus horsfieldii
Quick answer
Swift flowing rocky streams of peninsular India
- Scientific name
- Myophonus horsfieldii
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Myophonus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Malabar Whistling-thrush in your journal
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- African Grey Flycatcher (Bradornis microrhynchus)
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