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Turdus chiguanco

Photo by Gary Clark
Location: Quebrada del Condorito, Cordoba Province, Argentina.

[edit] Identification

A dark sooty or brownish thrush with an orange bill. Easily confused with the larger and proportionally longer-tailed Great Thrush. Males of that species have an orange-yellow eye-ring unlike the Chiguanco Thrush of the subspecies T. c. chiguanco and T. c. conradi, but the southern T. c. anthracinus (from Bolivia and southwards) has an orange-yellow eye-ring. The plumage of T. c. anthracinus is darker than the overlapping subspecies of the Great Thrush, but elsewhere the opposite is true.

While typically in different habitats, the Chiguanco Thrush can also be confused with the males of the Pale-eyed (with whitish eyes) and Glossy-black Thrush (with a glossy deep black plumage).

[edit] Distribution

From north-central Ecuador (where possibly expanding) south along the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, north-eastern Chile and Argentina, where extends south-east towards the Atlantic coast. Common.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 3 subspecies.

[edit] Habitat

Woodland and shrubland. Often arid areas. Regular in gardens and parks. Mainly in highlands, but also in lowlands in the southern part of its range.

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