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Photo by olivewarbler
Los Morales, Dapa, Valle, Colombia, December 2007

Myadestes ralloides

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America:
Central America: Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

[edit] Taxonomy

Myadestes ralloides has been split into 3 species ²

• Myadestes melanops
• Myadestes coloratus
• Myadestes ralloides

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. r. plumbeiceps:

• Western and central Andes of Colombia and western Ecuador

• M. r. candelae:

• North-central Colombia (Magdalena Valley)

• M. r. venezuelensis:

• Eastern Andes of Colombia to northern Venezuela, eastern Ecuador and northern Peru

• M. r. ralloides:

• Central Peru (La Libertad and Huánuco) to northern Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

Moist montane forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[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

• List of references

[edit] External Links