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Photo by Robert Scanlon
Photographed: La Conejera, Bogota, Colombia

Turdus fuscater

[edit] Identification

33mm (13") Sooty gray. Orange bill and yellow-orange legs. Male has yellow eye-ring.
Female lacks eye-ring.

[edit] Distribution

Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. Also found in Sierra de Perijá and Santa Marta mountains.

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by mmdnje
Parque Nacional Cajas, Ecuador

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• T. f. cacozelus:

• Santa Marta Mountains of north-eastern Colombia

• T. f. clarus:

• Sierra de Perijá on the Colombia/Venezuela border

• T. f. quindio:

• Central and Western Andes of Colombia to northern Ecuador

• T. f. gigas:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia to western Venezuela (Mérida and Táchira to Lara)

• T. f. gigantodes:

• Southern Ecuador to northern Peru (Junín)

• T. f. ockendeni:

• Andes of south-eastern Peru (Cuzco and Puno)

• T. f. fuscater:

• Andes of western Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba)

[edit] Habitat

Borders of montane forest and woodlands, agricultural areas and clearings. Mostly from 2500 to 4000m but have been found at altitudes as low as 1800m.

[edit] Behaviour

Known to flick its tail upwards.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

• List of references

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