Red-backed Thrush (Geokichla erythronota)

Other Names (World)
Red-backed Thrush, Rusty-backed Thrush

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
19 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater, 1859)

Habitat
Lowland forest, preferring primary forest on Sulawesi and Buton, and a wide range of closed canopy habitats, including shady plantations, secondary forest and bamboo stands as well as native forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Indonesia (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 100,000 - 499,999 (2011) and decreasing.

Status NT
Forest destruction, fires, trade are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Singly or in pairs.

Food
Arthropods, molluscs.

Voice
A thin, high-pitched, upslurred call note which, on Kabaena, is sandwiched by a higher preceeding and lower following note. The alarm call consists of a series of chacks. Song reported to be a typically thrush-like liquid series of notes.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

Red-backed Thrush (Geokichla erythronota) [XC787751]
by id from Aertembaga, Bitung City, North Sulawesi, Indonesia (?)

Red-backed Thrush (Geokichla erythronota) [XC415144]
by Aidan Place from Sulawesi: Tangkoko lowlands, Indonesia (song)

Subspecies
Zoothera erythronota (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Red-backed Thrush (Geokichla erythronota) and Red-and-black Thrush (Geokichla mendeni) following Collar (2004).

Formerly treated as conspecific with Red-and-black Thrush (Geokichla mendeni).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

erythronota (Sclater, 1859) - Sulawesi (except eastern peninsula) and Buton I.
kabaena (Robinson-Dean et al., 2002) - Kabaena I, south-eastern Sulawesi.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-backed Thrush (Geokichla erythronota) - 10 files

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