African Thrush (Turdus pelios)

Other Names (World)
African Thrush, West African Thrush (western subspecies), Cameroon Mountain Thrush (nigrilorum), Fernando Po Thrush (poensis)

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bonaparte, 1850

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, dry forest. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (46)...)

African Thrush (Turdus pelios) [XC669137]
by BurBenj from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (uncertain)

African Thrush (Turdus pelios) [XC810978]
by Ololade from West Kanyada (near Rodi Kopany), Asego, Homa Bay County, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
Taxonomy complex and not fully understood. Has been thought to form a superspecies with Bare-eyed Thrush (Turdus tephronotus) and Kurrichane Thrush (Turdus libonyana). Subspecies chinguancoides, nigrilorum, poensis and centralis have in the past been treated as subspecies of Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus), and the first two along with saturatus have sometimes been placed with Kurrichane Thrush (Turdus libonyana). Subspecies bocagei, graueri and stormsi have also been placed with Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus). Situation still not adequately resolved and further research is required.

Proposed subspecies adamauae (northern Cameroon) considered indistinguishable from nominate, and williami (northern Zambia) merged with stormsi.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

chiguancoides Seebohm, 1881 - Senegal east to northern Ghana.
saturatus (Cabanis, 1882) - Western Ghana east to central Cameroon, western PRCongo and Gabon.
nigrilorum Reichenow, 1892 - Mt Cameroon (Cameroon).
poensis Alexander, 1903 - Bioko (Fernando P�o).
pelios Bonaparte, 1850 - Eastern Cameroon east to Sudan, western Eritrea and west, central and eastern Ethiopia.
centralis Reichenow, 1905 - Eastern PRCongo and southern Central African Republic east to southern Ethiopia, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.
bocagei (Cabanis, 1882) - Western DRCongo and north-western and western Angola.
graueri Neumann, 1908 - Eastern DRCongo, Burundi, Rwanda and western Tanzania.
stormsi Hartlaub, 1886 - South-eastern DRCongo, eastern Angola and northern Zambia.
adamauae Grote, 1922 - Northern Cameroon (Adamawa Plateau).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for African Thrush (Turdus pelios) - 10 files

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