- Myadestes coloratus
Identification
16-18 cm.
- Pale slate-grey head and underparts
- Smudgy blackish forehead, face and chin
- Warm brown mantle to upperwing-coverts and uppertail-coverts
- Blackish primary coverts, most of flight-feathers and tail, outer tail paler and with pale grey tips
- Yellow bill and legs
Sexes similar. Juveniles are olive-brown with whitish and buffy spots and streaks above, have a warm brown wingpanel, a black tail and white-spotted brownish underparts.
Similar species
Intermediate in plumage colours between Black-faced Solitaire and Andean Solitaire.
Distribution
Darien Highlands in eastern Panama and adjacent extreme northwestern Colombia.
A fairly common to common restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Sometimes considered conspecific with Black-faced Solitaire and Andean Solitaire.
Habitat
Found in montane cloudforest.
Occurs at 1100 to 1500 m, lower on Cerro Quia (900 m).
Behaviour
Diet
Poorly known. Seen joining tanagers and other species in fruiting trees.
Breeding
Birds in breeding-condition in April, juveniles and fledglings recorded in late May and early June. No other information.
Movements
Presumably a sedentary species. Some altitudinal movement possible.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Varied Solitaire. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Varied_Solitaire
