Amami Thrush - BirdForum Opus

DaninJapan
Mountains of central Amami Oshima, Japan, April 2009

Zoothera major

Identification

30cm. Olive-brown to buff upperparts, whitish underparts with heavy black scaling, twelve tail feathers.

Similar Species

Slightly larger than Scaly Thrush, but otherwise indistinguishable in the field except for its cheerier song

Distribution

Restricted to primary forest on Amami-Oshima, Japan, is now extremely rare and rapidly declining in numbers.

Considered critically endangered.

Taxonomy

Monotypic^[2]
Treated by some authorities as subspecies of Scaly Thrush^[1]

Habitat

Subtropical broadleaved evergreen forest around humid valleys.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes invertebrates and fruit.

Breeding

It breeds in May and June, laying 3-4 eggs.

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.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Amami Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Amami_Thrush

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