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Alternative name: Clay-colored Thrush

Turdus grayi

Photo by Gary Clark
Location: Wilson Botanical Garden near San Vito, Costa Rica.

Identification

23–27 cm. Brown, paler underparts, lighter flanks, streaked throat, green yellow bill, pink or flesh legs, red iris. Females a little larger than males.

Distribution

South Texas, Mexico, northern Colombia, and Costa Rica.

Taxonomy

Six subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• T.g. tamaulipensis
• T.g. microrhynchus
• T.g. grayi
• T.g. megas
• T.g. casius
• T.g. incomptus

Habitat

Gardens.

Behaviour

The diet includes fruit and invertebrates.

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. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Morton & Stutchbury (2001): Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-675556-6

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