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Turdus serranus

Identification

The male is deep glossy black with distinct orange legs, bill and eye-ring, and resembles several other black thrushes in South America, especially Great, Chiguanco and Pale-eyed Thrush. The last easily separated by its pale eyes. First two can be harder, but neither is as deep glossy black as the Glossy-black Thrush. Males of the subspecies cumanensis (with relatively small distribution) are duller than the remaining subspecies. Identification of the dark brownish female can be more difficult, but the plain/faintly streaked throat and the narrow indistinct yellowish eye-ring are often useful.

Distribution

South America: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina

Taxonomy

• T. s. cumanensis:

• North-eastern Venezuela (Anzoátegui, Sucre and Monagas)

• T. s. atrosericeus:

• North-eastern Colombia (Páramo de Tamá) to Andes of northern Venezuela

• T. s. fuscobrunneus:

• Mountains of central and southern Colombia to Ecuador

• T. s. serranus:

• Mountains of Peru, Bolivia and north-western Argentina (Salta and Jujuy)

Habitat

Montane forest, almost exclusively humid.

Behaviour

Arboreal and often rather secretive.

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.

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Glossy-black Thrush. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Glossy-black_Thrush

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