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Alternative names: American Mountain Thrush; Mountain Robin

Photo by Greg Lavaty
Savegre, Costa Rica, January 2009

Photo by paul47
Volcan, Panama, March 2008

Turdus plebejus

[edit] Identification

23-26 cm

• Dull olive-brown
• Faint white streaks on the throat
• Black bill
• Dark brown legs
  

Juvenile:

• Buff or orange streaks on the head and upperparts
• Dark spotting on the underparts

Otherwise similar to the adult

[edit] Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are three subspecies:

• T. p. differens: olive above, and olive brown below

• Mountains of south-eastern Mexico (extreme south-eastern Chiapas) and Guatemala

• T. p. rafaelensis:

• Mountains of El Salvador and Nicaragua

• T. p. plebejus:

• Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama (Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí)

[edit] Habitat

Tall mountain forests and adjacent more open areas and woodland edge.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

The cup nest is lined with grass or rootlets. The clutch consists of 2–3 greenish-blue eggs.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes small fruits, insects and spiders.

[edit] 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. Avibase
3. AvianWeb

• List of references

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