Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi)

Other Names (World)
Clay-colored Thrush, Clay-coloured Thrush, Clay-colored Robin, Clay-coloured Robin, Gray Robin, Garden Thrush, Gray's Thrush

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
23 - 26.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bonaparte, 1838

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest, heavily degraded former forest, rural gardens, pastureland, arable land, plantations. From sea-level - 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, USA (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 20,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (81)...)

Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi) [XC564278]
by Manuel Grosselet from MEX, Oax, oaxaca Jardin Botanico, Mexico (alarm call)

Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi) [XC317974]
by Andrew Spencer from Santa Ana, Santa Ana., El Salvador (alarm call)

Subspecies
Has in the past been thought to form a superspecies, or even to be conspecific, with Spectacled Thrush (Turdus nudigenis), but differences between the two considered too great to warrant such treatment. Geographical variation for the most part very slight. Some subspecies perhaps better merged.

Proposed subspecies umbrinus (from Guatemala) apparently based on fresh nominate specimens.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

tamaulipensis (Nelson, 1897) - Extreme southern USA (southern Texas) and eastern Mexico (eastern Nuevo Le�n, Tamaulipas, northern Veracruz).
microrhynchus Lowery & Newman, RJ, 1949 - East-central Mexico (south-central San Luis Potos��).
lanyoni Dickerman, 1981 - Caribbean drainage of southern Mexico, northern Guatemala and southern Belize.
yucatanensis Phillips, AR, 1991 - Northern Yucat�n Peninsula (south-eastern Mexico and northern Belize).
linnaei Phillips, AR, 1966 - Southern Mexico (Pacific Oaxaca and lowland southern Chiapas) east to Guatemala border.
grayi Bonaparte, 1838 - Southern Mexico (Pacific slope of southern Chiapas) east to western Guatemala.
megas Miller, W & Griscom, 1925 - Pacific slope of western Guatemala south to Honduras and Nicaragua.
casius (Bonaparte, 1855) - Costa Rica south to north-western Colombia.
incomptus (Bangs, 1898) - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in northern Colombia.

References
See References.

Files:

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