From Opus

Photo by Steve G
An adult bird of race phaeopygoides. Photo taken: Main Ridge Forest Reserve on Tobago.

Turdus albicollis

[edit] Identification

20½-26 cm. Dark brown upperparts, turning duskier or greyer towards the ocular region, white throat with dark streaks, white crissum and central belly, grey chest tinged brown, pinkish-brown legs and a red or yellow eye-ring. Sexes are similar, but juveniles are duller, with dull orange spotting above, and brownish spotting below.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Brazil, far northern Uruguay, eastern Paraguay, far north-eastern Argentina, western Venezuela, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

[edit] Taxonomy

The phaeopygos group (including subspecies phaopygoides, spodiolaemus and contemptus) is mainly found in the Amazon Basin.

[edit] Habitat

Humid forest and woodland near mountains.

[edit] Behaviour

It feeds on or near the ground and the diet includes invertebrates, some fruit and berries; it regularly follows army ant swarms.

The nest is a lined cup of twigs placed low in a tree or bush. 2-3 reddish-blotched green-blue eggs are laid and incubated by the female alone for 12-13 days.

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