Orange-billed nightingale-thrush

Orange-billed nightingale-thrush
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Turdidae
Genus:	Catharus
Species:	C. aurantiirostris
Binomial name
	Catharus aurantiirostris; (Hartlaub, 1850)

The orange-billed nightingale-thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.

Measuring 14 cm (5.5 in) long, this nightingale-thrush has a bright orange bill, eye ring, and legs. Northern birds have a brown back and cap, and a whitish chest and belly. Southern birds have a distinctive grey crown and darker chest and flanks.[2][3]

It is fairly common within its range. It forages on the ground for insects and fruit.

The song is a less musical than other thrushes. It consists of a nasal, slurred whaaaaa.[4]

References

BirdLife International (2012). "Catharus aurantiirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
Garrigues, Richard & Dean, Robert (2007). The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9.
Angehr, George R. & Dean, Robert (2010). The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7.
Soberanes-González, C.; Rodríguez-Flores, C.; Arizmendi, M.C. (2010). Schulenberg, T.S. (ed.). "Overview – Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris)". Neotropical Birds Online. Ithaca, NY, US: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

External links

Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Photos from a rare U.S. sighting in the Black Hills, South Dakota in 2010
"Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush media". Internet Bird Collection.
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
Interactive range map of Catharus aurantiirostris at IUCN Red List maps

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[1] BirdLife International (2012). "Catharus aurantiirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[BCR-2] Garrigues, Richard & Dean, Robert (2007). The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9.

[BOP-3] Angehr, George R. & Dean, Robert (2010). The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7.

[NeoBirds-4] Soberanes-González, C.; Rodríguez-Flores, C.; Arizmendi, M.C. (2010). Schulenberg, T.S. (ed.). "Overview – Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris)". Neotropical Birds Online. Ithaca, NY, US: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 18 July 2014.