Purple whistling thrush
| Purple whistling thrush | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
_at_Jayanti,_Duars,_West_Bengal_W_Picture_465.jpg)
Purple Whistling Thrush ( Myophonus caeruleus ) |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Myophonus caeruleus | ||||||||||||
| ( Scopoli , 1786) |
The purple whistle thrush ( Myophonus caeruleus ) is a species of bird from the genus Myophonus in the flycatcher family (Muscicapidae). Occasionally it is assigned to the thrush family (Turdidae).
description
With a length of about 33 centimeters and a weight of about 179 grams, the purple whistle thrush is one of the largest representatives of the flycatcher. It has a black or yellow beak and blue-black plumage, the tips of which are shiny gray-blue.
Subspecies and distribution
The distribution area of the purple whistle thrush extends from Central Asia to the Indonesian islands in Southeast Asia. There it lives in mountain forests up to the tree line at an altitude of about 2400 to 3000 meters and mostly breeds near mountain streams. Your clutch consists of two eggs. Due to seasonal hikes, they can now also be found in tropical forests and mangroves .
There are six subspecies:
- M. c. caeruleus ( Scopoli , 1786) - Middle and Eastern China
- M. c. crassirostris Robinson , 1910 - southeastern Thailand , Cambodia and north of the Malay Peninsula
- M. c. dichrorhynchus Salvadori , 1879 - middle and south of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
- M. c. eugenei Hume , 1873 - central, eastern and south-eastern Myanmar, west, north and east Thailand, central and southern Yunnan, and northern and central Indochina
- M. c. flavirostris ( Horsfield , 1821) - Java
- M. c. temminckii Vigors , 1832 - western Tian Shan southwards to Afghanistan and eastwards through the Himalayas , eastern Assam to Sichuan , also northern and northeastern Myanmar
swell
- Wolfgang Grummt , Harro Strehlow: Zoo animal husbandry: animals in human care. Birds . Harri Deutsch Verlag 2009, ISBN 9783817116362 , p. 628 ( excerpt (Google) )
- Morton Strange: A photographic guide to the birds of Southeast Asia including the Philippines & Borneo . Princeton University Press 2003, ISBN 9780691114941 , p. 305 ( excerpt (Google) )
- Jason A. Mobley: Birds of the World . Marshall Cavendish 2008, ISBN 9780761477754 , p. 654 ( excerpt (Google) )
Web links
- Myophonus coeruleus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2009. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2009. Accessed September 2 of 2010.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Myophonus caeruleus in the Internet Bird Collection
- blue whistling-thrush - website with photos and some data
- blue whistling thrush - Website with photos and brief description