- Catharus aurantiirostris
Identification
Distribution
Highlands of northern Mexico to northern Venezuela and Trinidad including Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Has occured twice in Texas (once at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge and once in Edinburg, Texas).
Taxonomy
Polytypic. Consists of fourteen subspecies.
Subspecies1
- C. a. aenopennis - Highlands of nw Mexico (this is a probably the race that occurred in Texas)
- C. a. aurantiirostris - Mountains of ne Colombia and nw Venezuela
- C. a. bangsi - Guatemala to El Salvador and Honduras
- C. a. barbaritoi - Western Venezuela
- C. a. birchalli - Mountains of ne Venezuela (Sucre) and Trinidad
- C. a. clarus - North central Mexico
- C. a. costaricensis - Nicaragua to northwest Costa Rica
- C. a. griseiceps - Mountains of western Panama
- C. a. inornatus - Western slope of e Andes of Colombia
- C. a. insignis - Northern Colombia
- C. a. melpomene - Southern Mexico
- C. a. phaeopleurus - Central Colombia
- C. a. russatus - Mountains of sw Costa Rica and w Panama
- C. a. sierrae - Santa Marta Mountains in ne Colombia
Habitat
Forests and montanes.
