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Photo by Fritz73
Photo taken: Calilegua NP, Jujuy, Argentina.

Catharus dryas

Includes: Sclater's Nightingale-Thrush, Gould's Nightingale-Thrush

Identification

Yellow breast, orange eye-ring and bill and black head.

Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Four subspecies recognized, sometimes split into two species:^[1]:

• C. d. ovandensis:

• Highlands of southern Mexico (southeastern Oaxaca and Chiapas)

• C. d. dryas:

• Highlands of Guatemala, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua

• C. d. maculatus:

• Andes of Venezuela and of Colombia (except for Pacific slope) and eastern slope of Andes of Ecuador, Peru, and northern Bolivia; western slope of Andes in Ecuador

• C. d. blakei:

• Andes of southern Bolivia (Tarija) and northern Argentina (Jujuy and Salta)

If split ovandensis and dryas would form Gould's Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus dryas and maculatus and blakei Sclater's Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus maculatus.

Habitat

Moist montane forests.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 21 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-throated_Nightingale-Thrush

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