Malabar Whistling Thrush is a Deep blue colored ground-dweller with shining forehead and shoulder patches. The belly of the bird can appear mottled blue-and-black in the right lighting. It inhabits foothills and mountain forests. It remains closely to water, especially rocky streams and smaller rivers with overhanging vegetation and rocky ledges. the bird whistles songs like tunes and human-like series of variable, deliberate-sounding whistles. It is a resident in the Western Ghats and associated hills of peninsular India including central India and parts of the Eastern Ghats. Male has a blackish upper body with shiny metallic patches of blue on the forehead and shoulders, and glossy royal-blue scaling on back, scapulars and mid-breast to belly.
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