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 LC    Kurrichane Thrush* Id (Atlas):
    Turdus libonyana

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Turdus libonyana [BirdLife International (2004)], Turdus libonyana [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
21 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (55)...)

 
Kurrichane Thrush (Turdus libonyana) [XC518639]
     by Simon Elliott from Bonamanzi Game Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (song)

 
Kurrichane Thrush (Turdus libonyana) [XC442430]
     by Antonio Xeira from Bizana, Transkei District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with African Thrush (Turdus pelios) and Bare-eyed Thrush (Turdus tephronotus). Hybridization with Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus) claimed in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Proposed subspecies chobiensis (from northern Botswana and western Zimbabwe) considered indistinguishable from verreauxi, and peripheris (eastern South Africa) from nominate.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • tropicalis Peters, W, 1881   -  South-eastern Burundi and Tanzania south to central and eastern Zambia, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
  • verreauxii Bocage, 1870   -  Angola and south-eastern DRCongo south to north-eastern Namibia, western Zambia, northern Botswana and western Zimbabwe.
  • libonyana (A. Smith, 1836)   -  Eastern and southern Botswana east to southern Mozambique, south to northern and north-eastern South Africa and Swaziland.
  • peripheris Clancey, 1952   -  Eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), south-eastern Swaziland, and southern Mozambique.



References
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Files:
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