Orange Ground Thrush (Geokichla gurneyi) [XC254412]
by Daniel Danckwerts from Amahlathi Local Municipality (near Stutterheim), Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Orange Ground Thrush (Geokichla gurneyi) [XC515222]
by The late Jens O. Svendsen and Louis A. Hansen from Nyamigado camp (and day trips from here), Mafwemiro forest, Mpwapwa, Dodoma Region, Tanzania (call)
Subspecies
Frequently treated as conspecific with Crossley's Ground-thrush (Geokichla crossleyi), in part owing to vocal similarity, but plumage differences favour treatment as two separate species. Proposed subspecies chyulu (from Chyulu Mts, in south-eastern Kenya) and usambarae (from Mlalo, near Wilhelmstal, in northern Tanzania) considered synonyms of raineyi.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
chuka van Someren, 1931 - Mt Kenya and Kikuyu escarpment.
raineyi Mearns, 1913 - South-eastern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
otomitra Reichenow, 1904 - Western Angola, south-eastern DRCongo, Tanzania and northern Malawi.
disruptans (Clancey, 1955) - Central Malawi south to Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, north-eastern South Africa (Northern Province) and northern Swaziland.
gurneyi (Hartlaub, 1864) - Eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal south to eastern Cape).