- Forest Thrush
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Forest Thrush Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae Genus: Cichlherminia Species: C. lherminieri Binomial name Cichlherminia lherminieri
(Lafresnaye, 1844)The Forest Thrush (Cichlherminia lherminieri) is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is the sole species within the genus Cichlherminia.[1]
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 is endemic to the Lesser Antilles, an island group in the Caribbean. It can be foud, though uncommon to rare, on Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, and Saint Lucia. Its natural habitat is tropical moist mountain forest.
Two subspecies occur: the Montserrat race and the Dominica race, distinguished by the amount of scaling on the breast. The Dominca race has a white belly and scaled breast, the Montserrat race has scaling all the way from the breast through the upper belly.[2]
It is threatened by habitat loss.[3]
References
- ^ 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. Phylogeny and Conservation. Conservation Biology. 8. Cambridge University Press. pp. 267–294. ISBN 9780521825023. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3W_TN0790vEC&pg=PA292.
- ^ Garrido, Orlando; Keith, Allan; Raffaele, Herbert; Raffaele, Janis; Wiley, James (2003). Birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press. pp. 142–143. ISBN 0-691-11319-X.
- ^ "2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". http://www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
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