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Adult
Photo by Reini
Abuko,, The Gambia, November 2005

Turdus pelios

[edit] Identification

• Grey-brown body
• Greyish head
• Yellow bill
  

Sexes similar

[edit] Similar Species

Similar to the Olive Thrush which is found in denser forestry.

[edit] Distribution

Widespread throughout sub-Saharan Africa:
Western Africa: Senegambia, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po)

Immature
Photo by Reini
Senegambia hotel garden, The Gambia, November 2005

[edit] Taxonomy

There are ten subspecies;

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• T. p. chiguancoides:

• Senegal to Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and northern Ghana

• T. p. saturatus:

• Western Ghana to Cameroon, western Congo and Gabon

• T. p. pelios:

• Eastern Cameroon to Chad, southern Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia

• T. p. adamauae:

• Northern Cameroon (Adamawa Plateau)

• T. p. nigrilorum:

• Highlands of Mount Cameroon

• T. p. poensis:

• Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

• T. p. centralis:

• Northern Zaire to southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania

• T. p. graueri:

• Extreme eastern Zaire to Rwanda, Burundi and western Tanzania

• T. p. bocagei:

• Western Angola (Benguela highlands) to western Zaire

• T. p. stormsi:

• South-eastern Zaire (Shaba) to north-eastern Angola and north-western Zambia

[edit] Habitat

Woodland, forest edge and close to cultivation.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects, earthworms and berries.

[edit] Breeding

They nest in bushes.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. Kenya Birds

• List of references

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