Buro thrush

Buro thrush
Systematics
Order :	Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination :	Songbirds (passeri)
Family :	Thrushes (Turdidae)
Subfamily :	Turdinae
Genre :	Geokichla
Type :	Buro thrush
Scientific name
	Geokichla dumasi
	( Rothschild , 1899)

The buru thrush ( Geokichla dumasi ) is a songbird species from the thrush family (Turdidae). It is endemic to the Moluccan island of Buru . The type epithet honors the Dutch researcher Johannes Maximiliaan Dumas (1856–1931), who collected the holotype in August 1898 at Gunung Kapalatmada .

features

The Buru thrush reaches a body length of 17 cm. The upper side plumage is rich reddish brown in the adult birds. An incomplete light eye ring runs around the iris. The reins are whitish. The dark wings have two interrupted white-spotted wing bands. The flight feathers have rust-brown hems. The tail is blackish with reddish brown borders. The area from the face to the underbust is black. The middle of the abdomen is black and white, the lower abdomen is white. The under tail coverts have an ocher tint. The legs are grayish-flesh-colored to yellowish-brown. The sexes look the same. The juvenile birds are similar to the adult birds. They have light shaft stripes and reddish wing spots on the top. An indistinct stripe under the beard runs on the face. The throat, chest and flanks are speckled black, yellow-brown and reddish-brown.

Vocalizations

The singing is undocumented. The call consists of a high pthhhhhhh .

Habitat and way of life

Distribution area (red) in Indonesia

The Burudrossel lives in mountain rainforests at altitudes between 700 and 1,500 m. Nothing is known about feeding behavior. Information about reproductive behavior comes from individual individuals. Eggs were spotted in early February and juvenile birds were seen in April and May. A nesting bird was observed in November. The eggs are light bluish with small reddish brown speckles.

status

The IUCN lists the Burudrossel on the early warning list ( near threatened ). The mountain forests on Buru are considered intact. The booming cage bird trade in Indonesia could prove to be a threat.

literature

Peter Clement & Ren Hathway: Thrushes (Helm Identification Guides) (2nd edition) A & C Black, 2001, pp. 221-222. ISBN 978-0-691-08852-5 .
Nigel J. Collar : Species limits in some Indonesian thrushes Forktail 20 (2004): p. 71-87
James A. Eaton , Bas van Balen , Nick W. Brickle, Frank E. Rheindt : Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago Greater Sundas and Wallacea . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2016. ISBN 978-84-941892-6-5
Nigel J. Collar (2017). Buru Thrush (Zoothera dumasi) . In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, DA & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (accessed from HBW Alive on March 14, 2017).

Web links

BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Geokichla dumasi (Engl.)

Geokichla dumasi inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.3. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2017.

Individual evidence

^ Mary LeCroy: Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, and Polioptilidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (2005): 1–127.

[1] Mary LeCroy: Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, and Polioptilidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (2005): 1–127.