Turdus nigrescens: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae
- Genus
- Turdus
- Species
- Turdus nigrescens
- Scientific Name
- Turdus nigrescens
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sooty thrush
The sooty thrush (Turdus nigrescens) is a large thrush endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. It was formerly known as the sooty robin.
This is an abundant bird of open areas and oak forest edge normally above 2200 m altitude. It builds a heavy grass-lined cup nest in a tree 2–8 m above the ground, and the female lays two unmarked greenish-blue eggs between March and May.
The sooty thrush resembles other Turdus thrushes in general appearance and habits. It is 24–25.5 cm long, and weighs 96 g on average. The adult male is brownish-black with black wings and tail, and a black area between the orange bill and the eye. The legs and bare eye ring are orange and the iris is pale grey. The female is similar but browner and somewhat paler, and has yellow-orange bare parts. The juvenile resembles the adult female but has buff or orange streaks on the head and upperparts and dark spotting on the underparts.
Two superficially similar relatives share this species' range. The mountain thrush is uniformly brown with dark bare parts, and the clay-colored robin is much paler and yellow-billed.
The sooty thrush behaves like other thrushes such as the American robin. It forages on the ground, singly or in pairs, progressing in hops and dashes with frequent stops. It turns leaf litter seeking insects and spiders, and also eats small fruits, especially Ericaceae and Solanum.
The breeding season song is a gurgling squeaky chuweek chuweek seechrrzit seechrrzit seechrrzit seechrrzit tseeur tseeur tseeur tseeur, and the call is a grating grrrrkk.
...Turdus nigrescens in languages:
- Bokmål
- Sottrost
- Czech
- drozd sazový
- Danish
- Hvidøjet Drossel
- Dutch
- Roetlijster
- English
- Sooty Thrush
- Estonian
- Laavarästas
- Finnish
- laavarastas
- French
- Merle fuligineux
- German
- Rußdrossel
- Hungarian
- füstös rigó
- Polish
- Drozd smolisty
- Portuguese
- Sabiá-fuliginoso
- Portuguese
- Melro-fuliginoso
- Russian
- мрачный дрозд
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Turdus abyssinicus
- Turdus albicollis
- Turdus albocinctus
- Turdus amaurochalinus
- Turdus arthuri
- Turdus assimilis
- Turdus atrogularis
- Turdus atrogularis × ruficollis
- Turdus aurantius
- Turdus bewsheri
- Turdus boulboul
- Turdus cardis
- Turdus celaenops
- Turdus chiguanco
- Turdus chrysolaus
- Turdus dissimilis
- Turdus eremita
- Turdus eunomus
- Turdus eunomus × naumanni
- Turdus falcklandii
- Turdus feae
- Turdus flavipes
- Turdus fulviventris
- Turdus fumigatus
- Turdus fuscater
- Turdus grayi
- Turdus haplochrous
- Turdus hauxwelli
- Turdus helleri
- Turdus hortulorum
- Turdus ignobilis
- Turdus iliacus
- Turdus infuscatus
- Turdus jamaicensis
- Turdus kessleri
- Turdus lawrencii
- Turdus leucomelas
- Turdus leucops
- Turdus lherminieri
- Turdus libonyana
- Turdus litsitsirupa
- Turdus ludoviciae
- Turdus maculirostris
- Turdus mandarinus
- Turdus maranonicus
- Turdus maximus
- Turdus menachensis
- Turdus merula
- Turdus migratorius
- Turdus mupinensis
- Turdus murinus
- Turdus naumanni
- Turdus nigrescens
- Turdus nigriceps
- Turdus niveiceps
- Turdus nudigenis
- Turdus obscurus
- Turdus obsoletus
- Turdus olivaceofuscus
- Turdus olivaceus
- Turdus olivaceus × smithi
- Turdus olivater
- Turdus pallidus
- Turdus pelios
- Turdus philomelos
- Turdus pilaris
- Turdus plebejus
- Turdus plumbeus
- Turdus poliocephalus
- Turdus ravidus
- Turdus reevei
- Turdus roehli
- Turdus rubrocanus
- Turdus ruficollis
- Turdus rufitorques
- Turdus rufiventris
- Turdus rufopalliatus
- Turdus sanchezorum
- Turdus serranus
- Turdus simensis
- Turdus simillimus
- Turdus smithi
- Turdus subalaris
- Turdus swalesi
- Turdus tephronotus
- Turdus torquatus
- Turdus unicolor
- Turdus viscivorus
- Turdus xanthorhynchus

























































































































































