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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Above dark grey shading to slate-black on head, wings, and tail. Throat, breast, sides, and crissum slate-gray; centre of lower breast and belly white. Eye white. Eye-ring and bill orange, legs paler orange. This description fits subspecies ''hellmayri'' from western [[Panama]] and [[Costa Rica]]; underside varies quite a bit on different subspecies but all have the pale eye. | Above dark grey shading to slate-black on head, wings, and tail. Throat, breast, sides, and crissum slate-gray; centre of lower breast and belly white. Eye white. Eye-ring and bill orange, legs paler orange. This description fits subspecies ''hellmayri'' from western [[Panama]] and [[Costa Rica]]; underside varies quite a bit on different subspecies but all have the pale eye. | ||
Revision as of 15:35, 17 May 2014
- Catharus fuscater
Identification
Above dark grey shading to slate-black on head, wings, and tail. Throat, breast, sides, and crissum slate-gray; centre of lower breast and belly white. Eye white. Eye-ring and bill orange, legs paler orange. This description fits subspecies hellmayri from western Panama and Costa Rica; underside varies quite a bit on different subspecies but all have the pale eye.
Distribution
Costa Rica to western Panama and from eastern Panama to NW Venezuela, N Colombia, and Bolivia.
Taxonomy
Seven subspecies are recognized.
Habitat
Mostly on or near ground in wet mountain forest
Behaviour
Its diet includes fruits; it hops bouncily, stops and stands pertly, nervously flicking wings.
