In the middle of a thicket, this strange bird suddenly appeared and looked at us - almost surprised. It is a Rusty-fronted barwing, an odd member of the laughingthrush family. The rust-brown plumage reveals that this is the nominal form, the subspecies egertoni, which occurs in e.g. Bhutan. The species occurs in dense undergrowth and shrub areas in deciduous forests, between 600 and 2,600 meters altitude. It subsists on insects, including grasshoppers and ants, but also on berries, such as wild strawberries.