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Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA, May 2006

Catharus fuscescens

[edit] Identification

17-18cm

• Upperparts tawny brown
• White underparts
• Throat and chest buffy, with indistinct reddish brown spots
• Pink legs
  

Sexes similar

[edit] Distribution

Canada and the northern United States., wintering in Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

Polytypic. Consists of four subspecies.

[edit] Subspecies¹

• C. f. fuliginosus - breeds in south-western Newfoundland to south-central Quebec; winters to South America
• C. f. fuscescens - breeds in eastern Canada and eastern US; winters to Amazonian [[Brazil
• C. f. salicicola - breeds in western Canada and western US; winters to western Brazil
• C. f. subpallidus - breeds northern Washington to north-eastern Oregon, western Montana and Colorado

[edit] Habitat

In thick understorey of damp, dense, deciduous forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and berries.

[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. Allaboutbirds
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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