Clay-colored Thrush

Alternative name: Clay-colored Robin

Photo of subspecies casius by rb_stern
Location: El Valle, Panama

Turdus grayi

Identification

23–27 cm

• Brown
• Paler underparts, lighter flanks
• Streaked throat
• Greenish-yellow bill
• Pinkish (or flesh-colored) legs
• Red iris
  

Females a little larger than males

Distribution

North, Central and South America
North America: found only in Texas
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia South Texas, Mexico, northern Colombia, and Costa Rica.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Six subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• T.g. tamaulipensis:

• Tropical eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas to Yucatán Peninsula and northern Chiapas)

• T.g. microrhynchus:

• Eastern Mexico (Santa María del Río region of San Luis Potosí)

• T.g. grayi:

• Eastern Mexico (Sierra Madre Oriental) to Guatemala

• T.g. megas:

• Western Guatemala to Nicaragua

• T.g. casius:

• Costa Rica to north-western Colombia (north-western Chocó)

• T.g. incomptus:

• Coastal northern Colombia (Barranquilla to Santa Marta Peninsula)

Subspecies incomptus along with lanyoni, yucatanensis and linnaei are not recognised by all authorities^[2].

Habitat

Widespread in a variety of habitats including evergreen tropícal forests and forest edges, garden lawns, shrubs and pastures.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes fruit and invertebrates.

Breeding

Its nest is a cup made from grass, moss, and mud. 1-3 pale blue, red-brown and grey marked eggs are laid with the average above to, but it is only the rare pair that fledges more than two young. It sometimes produces 2 broods.

At the local level, singing is highly synchronized, but at the regional level, timing of breeding can vary between one location and the next.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Morton & Stutchbury (2001): Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-675556-6
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Clay-colored Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Clay-colored_Thrush

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