Soot throttle
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Soot Thrush ( Turdus nigrescens ) |
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The soot thrush ( Turdus nigrescens ) is a large- growing thrush species that is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama .
Appearance
The soot throttle is 24-25.5 cm long and weighs an average of 96 g. The adult male is brownish-black with black wings and tail. It has a black area between the orange beak and the eye. The legs and the bare eye ring are orange, the iris light gray. The female looks similar, but is brown and slightly paler and has shiny yellow-orange parts. The young resemble the adult female. They have orange stripes on the head and upper plumage and dark spots on the underside.
Way of life and behavior
The bird species lives in areas of open spaces and preferably on the edges of oak forests . The soot throttle lives in areas which are usually over 2200 m above sea level. She builds grass-lined nests 2–8 m above the ground in trees . The female lays two inconspicuous, greenish-blue eggs between March and May.
The sootbird eats on the ground, singly or in pairs. The main sources of food are insects , arachnids and fruits (especially the heather family and numerous nightshade family ).
She is famous for her singing with gurgles.
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- Peter Clement , Ren Hathaway: Thrushes . A&C Black Publishers Ltd, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7136-3940-7 .
- Frank Gary Stiles, Dana Gardner , Alexander Frank Skutch: A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1990, ISBN 978-0-8014-9600-4 .
Web links
- Turdus nigrescens inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Sooty Thrush ( Turdus nigrescens ) . Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings for Sooty Thrush (Turdus nigrescens) in the Internet Bird Collection
- Soot Thrush ( Turdus nigrescens ) at Avibase; Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- Turdus nigrescens in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- xeno-canto: Sound recordings - Sooty Thrush ( Turdus nigrescens )