Glossy-black Thrush (Turdus serranus)

Other Names (World)
Glossy-black Thrush, Black Ouzel

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
23 - 25.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Tschudi, 1844

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 1,400 - 2,800 m, occasionally 900 - 3,750 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Glossy-black Thrush (Turdus serranus) [XC338274]
by Dries Van de Loock from Yanayacu Biol. Stat., Cosanga, Provincia de Napo, Ecuador (song)

Glossy-black Thrush (Turdus serranus) [XC771547]
by id from ECOAN Lodge, Abra Patricia, Peru (call, subsong)

Subspecies
Formerly included Black Thrush (Turdus infuscatus) as a subspecies, but that species rather smaller and with different song and female has distinctive underwing-coverts. Birds from Argentina (Jujuy) described as subspecies unicolor, but that name invalid, as preoccupied, and no replacement proposed. Included in subspecies serranus.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

atrosericeus (Lafresnaye, 1848) - North-eastern Colombia and northern Venezuela.
cumanensis (Hellmayr, 1919) - North-eastern Venezuela.
fuscobrunneus (Chapman, 1912) - Central and southern Colombia and Ecuador.
serranus Tschudi, 1844 - Peru, western Bolivia and north-western Argentina.
continoi Fraga & Dickinson, 2008 - North-western Argentina (Jujuy and Salta).

References
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Files:

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