- Scaly-breasted Thrasher
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- Allenia redirects here. It is also a junior synonym of the plant genus Micrantheum.
Scaly-breasted Thrasher Scaly-breasted Thrasher. Coulibistrie, Dominica. Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Mimidae Genus: Allenia
Müller, 1776Species: A. fusca Binomial name Allenia fusca
Müller, 1776Synonyms Margarops fuscus
The Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Allenia fusca) is a species of bird in the Mimidae family found in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It was formerly united with the Pearly-eyed Thrasher in Margarops but now is again placed in the monotypic genus Allenia.
It is found in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It may have disappeared from Barbados, Barbuda and Sint Eustatius. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
References
- BirdLife International 2004. Margarops fuscus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
External links
- Media related to Allenia fusca at Wikimedia Commons
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