Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis)

Other Names (World)
Black-billed Thrush, Black-billed Robin

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
21.50 - 24 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sclater, 1857

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest, subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland, dry savanna. From 900 - 2,000 m, occasionally up to 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) [XC683965]
by Jacob Wijpkema from Brisas, Colombia (song, llamadas de agresi\u00f3n)

Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) [XC742377]
by Joost van Bruggen from Victoria, Caldas, Colombia (alarm call)

Subspecies
Has been treated as conspecific with Mountain Thrush (Turdus plebejus), but probably not closely related.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

goodfellowi Hartert & Hellmayr, 1901 - Andes of western Colombia.
ignobilis Sclater, 1857 - Andes of central and eastern Colombia.
debilis Hellmayr, 1902 - Eastern Colombia, western Venezuela, and western Amazonia in Brazil, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and northern Bolivia.
murinus Salvin, 1885 - Southern Venezuela and Guyana.
arthuri (Chubb, 1914) - Tepuis of south-eastern Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) - 10 files

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