Species: Catharus fuscescens

Veery

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An 18-cm-long bird with a reddish brown dorsum, white belly, gray flanks, grayish face, small spots (often indistinct) on the breast, indistinct grayish eyering, and straight slim bill. Western populations have a darker dorsum and more breast spotting than do eastern populations.

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Turdidae

Genus

Catharus

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Source:
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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Sabiá-Ferrugem - Zorzal Rojizo, Parulata Cachetona - grive fauve

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Turdidae - Catharus - Formerly placed in genus HYLOCICHLA (AOU 1983).

Ecology and Life History

Short General Description

A bird (thrush).

Migration

false - false - true - Veery arrives in the southern U.S. in April, still common in migration mid-May, on northern nesting grounds by late April-early May (Terres 1980). Costa Rica: uncommon to sporadically common fall transient (late September-late October), rare spring transient (March-April) (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Diet includes insects and other invertebrates and small fruits; foraging occurs on forest floors and in trees (Terres 1980), often near water (Stiles and Skutch 1989). This species eats many fruits during migration (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Reproduction Comments

Eggs are laid in May-June. Clutch size is three to five (usually four). Incubation lasts 11-12 days, by female. Young are tended by both parents, leave nest at 10-12 days.

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Weight

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

2009-03-16

Global Status Last Changed

1996-12-03

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

G - 200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles) - G - Nesting range extends from southern British Columbia across southern Canada to Nova Scotia and southwestern Newfoundland, south to central Oregon, Colorado, South Dakota, southern Great Lakes region, and New Jersey, and in the Appalachians to northern Georgia; also east-central Arizona and probably northern New Mexico (Moskoff 1995, AOU 1998). <br><br>Winter range may be restricted to three small areas in south-central and southeastern Brazil, at the periphery of or south of the Amazon basin (Remsen 2001). Formerly the species was thought to winter in South America from Guyana, northern Venezuela, and eastern Colombia to Amazonian Brazil and northern Bolivia (Cochabamba and Santa Cruz) (a few records from Peru and Chile) (Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Tudor 1989, Moskoff 1995).<br><br>Range extent score reflects nonbreeding range.

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles)

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