Theforest thrush(Turdus lherminieri) is aspeciesofbirdin the familyTurdidae.It was historicallythe sole specieswithin thegenusCichlherminia,[2]however theAOUreclassified the species to the genusTurdusin 2009.
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Turdidae |
| Genus: | Turdus |
| Species: | T. lherminieri
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| Turdus lherminieri Lafresnaye,1844
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This is a medium-sizedthrushat 25–27 cm long and weighing 100–110 g.[3]Like many thrushes, the forest thrush has brown upperparts with pale underparts showing a scaly pattern of coloration. However, for a thrush it has an unusually wide band of bare skin around each eye. It isendemicto theLesser Antilles,an island group in theCaribbean.It can be found, though uncommon to rare, onDominica,Guadeloupe,Montserrat,andSaint Lucia.Its naturalhabitatis tropical moistmountain forestat mid-elevation underclosed canopies.[4]
Twosubspeciesoccur: the Montserrat race and the Dominica race, distinguished by the amount of scaling on the breast. The Dominica race has a white belly and scaled breast, the Montserrat race has scaling all the way from the breast through the upper belly.[5]
It is threatened byhabitat loss.[1]Its population is likely stable.[6]
References
edit- ^abBirdLife International (2019)."Turdus lherminieri".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2019:e.T22708544A154897073.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22708544A154897073.en.Retrieved12 November2021.
- ^Thomas M. Brooks; John D. Pilgrim; Ana S. L. Rodrigues & Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca (2005)."Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history".In Andy Purvis; John L. Gittleman & Thomas Brooks (eds.).Phylogeny and Conservation.Conservation Biology. Vol. 8.Cambridge University Press.pp. 267–294.ISBN978-0-521-82502-3.
- ^Birdlife International Species Factsheet
- ^PARASHURAM, DEVATHI; OPPEL, STEFFEN; FENTON, CALVIN; JAMES, GLENFORD; DALEY, JAMES; GRAY, GERARD; COLLAR, NIGEL J.; DOLMAN, PAUL M. (2 February 2015)."The Forest ThrushTurdus lherminieriprefers mature mesic forest with dense canopy ".Bird Conservation International.25(4): 503–513.doi:10.1017/s0959270914000495.ISSN0959-2709.
- ^Garrido, Orlando; Keith, Allan; Raffaele, Herbert; Raffaele, Janis; Wiley, James (2003).Birds of the West Indies.Princeton University Press.pp.142–143.ISBN0-691-11319-X.
- ^abJean-Pierre, Aurélie; Loranger-Merciris, G.; Saint-Louis, L. J.; Cézilly, F. (11 July 2023)."Factors affecting spatial occupancy and local abundance of the Forest Thrush, Turdus lherminieri, in Guadeloupe forests".European Journal of Wildlife Research.69(4).doi:10.1007/s10344-023-01698-8.ISSN1612-4642.
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