- Turdus fulviventris
Identification
23-25 cm (9-10 ins)
- Black head and throat
- Brownish slate-grey upperparts merging with pure mid-grey breast
- Orange-chestnut lower underparts
- Olive-grey undertail-coverts
- Yellowish-orange eyering and bill
- Yellowish-brown legs
Distribution
South America: found in the eastern Andes of Colombia, north-western Venezuela, Ecuador and extreme northern Peru.
Uncommon to locally fairly common in its range.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Moist montane forest. Often on steep hillsides and adjacent clearings and roadsides.
Occurs at 1300 to 2700 m, mainly at 1700 to 2300 m in Colombia.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on fruit, including berries.
Forages in trees but only rarely seen in fruiting trees with other species. Also sometimes seen feeding amid leaf litter on ground at roadsides or in clearings.
Breeding
Breeding season April to August in Colombia, sings mainly May to July in Venezuela, a fledgling recorded in February in Peru. No other information.
Movements
Mainly a sedentary species. Some altitudinal movement recorded in Ecuador.
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2005. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334726
- Avibase
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Chestnut-bellied Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chestnut-bellied_Thrush
External Links
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