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Alternative name: African Bare-eyed Thrush

Disambiguation: for the Bare-eyed Thrush found in the Americas, Turdus nudigenis, see Yellow-eyed Thrush

Photo by megan perkins
Malindi, Kenya, May 2006

Turdus tephronotus

[edit] Identification

Length 20 cm. Brownish-grey above; blackish speckles on throat, pale grey breast and rufous belly. The orange-yellow patch of bare skin around the eye is diagnostic.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Africa: found in the arid lowlands of Ethiopia and Somalia to Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Arid lowlands, agricultural fields, dry savanna and dry shrubland.

[edit] Behaviour

Fairly inconspicuous, although locally common. The diet includes fruit.

[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.

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