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Black Thrush (Turdus albicollis)

Black Thrush ( Turdus albicollis )

Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Songbirds (passeri)
Family : Thrushes (Turdidae)
Subfamily : Turdinae
Genre : Real thrushes ( Turdus )
Type : Mourning thrush
Scientific name
Turdus albicollis
Vieillot , 1816

The black thrush ( Turdus albicollis ) is a songbird from the thrush family (Turdidae). It is not one of the endangered species .

description

The dark gray bird has a black beak , a yellow iris ring and light gray chest plumage. It grows up to 26 cm and weighs between 40 and 75 g.

habitat

The black thrush is native to South America, namely in Colombia , Venezuela , Brazil , northern Argentina, as well as Trinidad , Tobago and Peru .

Distribution area of ​​the black thrush

Subspecies

7 subspecies have been described:

nutrition

The black thrush feeds mainly on fruits and berries, but also on worms and insects .

Habitat

The natural habitat of this thrush is the rainforest ( Mata Atlântica and Amazon rainforest ).

literature

  • Bernhard Grzimek: Grzimeks animal life. Volume 7-9 birds. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Munich (1993) ISBN 3-423-05970-2
  • Fotolulu: All birds of the world: The complete checklist of all species and subspecies, Publisher: Books on Demand (2015) ISBN 3734744075
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch, Jan Sztolcman, John Gerrard Keulemans : On the Ornithological Research of M. Jean Kalinowski in Central Peru . In: Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1896 . 1896, p. 322-388 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Louis Pierre Vieillot: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs . tape 20 . Deterville, Paris 1818 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Carl Eduard Hellmayr: Revision of some NeotropischenfTurdidae . In: Journal for Ornithology (=  5 ). tape 9 , no. 146 , 1902, pp. 44-69 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Chubb: On the Birds of Paraguay - Part IV . In: The Ibis (=  9 ). tape 4 , no. 16 , 1910, pp. 571-647 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jean Louis Cabanis : Travels in British Guiana in the years 1840-1844: together with a fauna and flora of Guiana based on models by Johannes Müller, Ehrenberg, Erichson, Klotzsch, Troschel, Cabanis and others . tape 3 . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1849 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Henry Seebohm: Catalog of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum . 5 Cichlomorphae: Part II containing the family Turidae, No. 2 . Printed by order of the Trustees, London 1881 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein: Directory of doubles in the Zoological Museum of the Königl. University of Berlin: together with a description of many previously unknown species of mammals, birds, amphibians and fish . Commissioned by T. Trautwein, Berlin 1823 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Black Thrush ( Turdus albicollis )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC World Bird List Thrushes
  2. ^ Henry Seebohm (1881), p. 404.
  3. ^ Jean Louis Cabanis (1849), p. 666.
  4. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch a. a. (1896), p. 326.
  5. ^ Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1902), p. 61.
  6. Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein (1823), p. 38.
  7. ^ Louis Pierre Vieillot (1818), p. 227.
  8. ^ Charles Chubb (1910), pp. 608-609.