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.
Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) [XC446949]
by David Monroy Rengifo from Tundayme (ECSA camp), Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador (song)
Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) [XC827285]
by id from San Jose de Payamino (near San Jos\u00e9 de Payamino), Cant\u00f3n de Loreto, Orellana, Ecuador (song)
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.