Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Gould's Nightingale-Thrush

Catharus dryas

Identification

• Yellow to peach underside with black or grey spots not reaching upper throat
• Black head
• Orange eye-ring
• Upperside olive
• Reddish-orange bill and pink legs

Distribution

Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies recognized^[1]:

• C. d. ovandensis:

• Highlands of southern Mexico (southeastern Oaxaca and Chiapas)

• C. d. dryas:

• Highlands of Guatemala, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua

Habitat

Undergrowth of moist forests at 1200-2800 m asl. The types of forest includes deciduous and oak-pine forest and occasionally coffee plantations.

Behaviour

Shy and not easily seen. When seen usually is on the ground. It seems to search for food among leaf litter.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Fagan, J & O Komar 2016. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0-544-37326-6
3. Collar, N. (2021). Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus dryas), version 1.1. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.spnthr1.01.1

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-throated_Nightingale-Thrush

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