Great Thrush (Turdus fuscater)

Other Names (World)
Great Thrush, Giant Thrush (gigas)

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
28 - 33 cm

First Described (Guide)
Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, high altitude grassland and shrubland. From 1,500 - 4,250 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

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 (65)...)

Great Thrush (Turdus) [XC344362]
by Andrea Lopera-Salazar from Reserva Rio Blanco, Aguas de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia (song)

Great Thrush (Turdus fuscater) [XC251700]
by Niels Krabbe from Zamora-Chinchipe: camp on Ventanilla-Christopher Parson trail, Reserva Tapichalaca, Ecuador (call)

Subspecies
Distinctive subspecies ockendeni merits further investigation and may possibly be a separate species. Geographical variation otherwise appears somewhat clinal.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

cacozelus (Bangs, 1898) - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in northern Colombia.
clarus Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1953 - Perij� Mts, on north-eastern Colombia-western Venezuela border.
quindio Chapman, 1925 - Southern and western Colombia and northern Ecuador.
gigas Fraser, 1841 - Eastern Andes of Venezuela and Colombia.
gigantodes Cabanis, 1873 - Southern Ecuador south to central Peru.
ockendeni Hellmayr, 1906 - South-eastern Peru.
fuscater Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837 - Western Bolivia.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Great Thrush (Turdus fuscater) - 10 files

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