(Picture placement and captions) |
KCFoggin-243 (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | [[Image:Slaty-backe Nightingale-thrushCosta Rica.jpg|thumb| | + | [[Image:Slaty-backed Nightingale-ThrushGF.JPG|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Gerald+Friesen|Gerald Friesen}}<br />Western Andes slope, [[Ecuador]], April, 2018]] |
| + | [[Image:Slaty-backe Nightingale-thrushCosta Rica.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by {{user|Stanley+Jones|Stanley Jones}}<br />Heredia Province, [[Costa Rica]], February 2014]] | ||
;[[:Category:Catharus|Catharus]] fuscater | ;[[:Category:Catharus|Catharus]] fuscater | ||
Revision as of 17:57, 13 May 2018
- Catharus fuscater
Identification
Above dark grey shading to slate-black on head, wings, and tail. Throat, breast, sides, and crissum slate-gray; centre of lower breast and belly white. Eye white. Eye-ring and bill orange, legs paler orange. This description fits subspecies hellmayri from western Panama and Costa Rica; underside varies quite a bit on different subspecies but all have the pale eye.
Distribution
Costa Rica to western Panama and from eastern Panama to NW Venezuela, N Colombia, and Bolivia.
Taxonomy
Seven subspecies are recognized.
Habitat
Mostly on or near ground in wet mountain forest
Behaviour
Its diet includes fruits; it hops bouncily, stops and stands pertly, nervously flicking wings.
