Species: Catharus ustulatus
Swainson's Thrush
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Turdidae
Genus
Catharus
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Sabiá-de-Óculos - Zorzal de Swainson, Zorzal Boreal - grive à dos olive
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Turdidae - Catharus - Formerly placed in genus HYLOCICHLA (AOU 1983). Composed of two groups: SWAINSONI (Olive-backed Thrush) and USTULATUS (Russet-backed Thrush) (AOU 1998).
Ecology and Life History
Migration
false - false - true - Abundant migrant in Costa Rica, mid-September to November and April-late May (Stiles and Skutch 1989). Most common migrant thrush in Colombia; transient and winter resident in South America early October-late April (Hilty and Brown 1986).
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats insects and other invertebrates, small fruits, seeds (Terres 1980). Very frugivorous in migration and during northern winter, sometimes concentrates in large numbers near fruiting trees and shrubs (Hilty and Brown 1986). In Costa Rica, eats many fruits and arillate seeds, relatively few insects and other invertebrates; may forage along edge of army ant swarms (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size usually is 3-4. Incubation, by female, lasts 10-14 days. Young are tended by both parents, leave nest at 10-14 days.
Ecology Comments
Nonbreeding: solitary or in loose flocks in migration (Stiles and Skutch 1989, Rappole and Warner 1980).
Length
18
Weight
31
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-03
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-03
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Nesting range extends from western and central Alaska across all of Canada (north to north-central Yukon, southern Northwest Territories (Great Bear Lake), northern Manitoba, nnorthern Ontario, north-central Quebec to about 54°N, central Labrador, and northern Newfoundland), and south through Pacific coast states to southern California, south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and northern New Mexico, south in the Great Plains and Great Lakes regions to eastern Montana, Black Hills of South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and northern Minnesota, and south in eastern North America to northern Pennsylvania, New England, and disjunctly to Virginia (Mack and Yong 2000). Range during the northern winter is mainly in Mexico and northern South America (east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern and eastern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina, with a few records from western Amazonian Brazil and coastal southwestern Peru) (Ridgely and Tudor 1989); also occurs in smaller numbers in Central America (Mack and Yong 2000).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)