Mountain Thrush

Alternative names: American Mountain Thrush; Mountain Thrush

Photo by Greg Lavaty<
Location: Costa Rica, January 2009

Photo by paul47
Volcan, Panama, March 2008

Turdus plebejus

Identification

23-26 cm

• Dull olive-brown
• Faint white streaks on the throat
• Black bill
• Dark brown legs
  

Juvenile:

• Buff or orange streaks on the head and upperparts
• Dark spotting on the underparts

Otherwise similar to the adult

Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are three subspecies:

• T. p. differens: olive above, and olive brown below

• Mountains of south-eastern Mexico (extreme south-eastern Chiapas) and Guatemala

• T. p. rafaelensis:

• Mountains of El Salvador and Nicaragua

• T. p. plebejus:

• Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama (Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí)

Habitat

Tall mountain forests and adjacent more open areas and woodland edge.

Behaviour

Breeding

The cup nest is lined with grass or rootlets. The clutch consists of 2–3 greenish-blue eggs.

Diet

The diet includes small fruits, insects and spiders.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. AvianWeb

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Mountain Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Mountain_Thrush

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