Orange Ground-Thrush (Geokichla gurneyi)

Other Names (World)
Orange Ground-Thrush, Gurney's Thrush, Gurney's Ground-thrush, Orange Ground Thrush

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1864)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 500 - 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (82)...)

Orange Ground Thrush (Geokichla gurneyi) [XC756859]
by isaac kilusu from Mount Kenya Forest (near Kimunye), Mount Kenya Forest, Kirinyaga County, Kenya (song)

Orange Ground Thrush (Geokichla gurneyi) [XC280325]
by Niall Perrins from Xumeni Forest, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (song)

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).

References
See References.

Files:

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