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Brown trembler

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mostly shades of brown. Their crown is a deep grayish brown, the nape less gray, the back an olive brown, and the rump and tail a reddish brown. The face is blackish through the eye with grayish olive brown cheeks. The chin and throat are pale grayish buff that becomes browner on the breast and belly. The sides and flanks are cinnamon. The juvenile is similar with faint dusky spots on the breast.
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The nominate subspecies of brown trembler is 20.5 to 26 cm (8.1 to 10.2 in) long; males weigh 47.6 to 65.4 g (1.68 to 2.31 oz) and females 42.8 to 71 g (1.51 to 2.50 oz). The species has a long, slightly downcurved bill, the female's longer than the male's. Adults are
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has assessed the brown trembler as being of Least Concern. However, its population size and trend have not been determined and "it is likely that further deforestation and conversion to plantations or other human settlement will
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Tremblers derive their name from a typical behavior "in which the wings both are drooped and angled slightly away from the body...making very rapid vertical and lateral motions.
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in quality from 'rather harsh, others rich and warbled, still others high and squeaky'" It also has "subsongs" delivered less frequently. A common call is "a nasal, rasping
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The brown trembler forages on the ground, in the understory, and in the midstory. It tosses leaves with its bill and more typically probes
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of the brown trembler is the most widely distributed; it is found in the northern Lesser Antilles from Saba south to Montserrat.
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is also similar to the nominate, but its upperparts are darker and sootier and the breast more grayish.
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and plantations. In elevation it ranges from sea level to about 900 m (3,000 ft).
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evidence that brown tremblers from Guadeloupe northwards may represent a separate species (
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The brown trembler mostly inhabits humid evergreen forest but is also found in
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The brown trembler's principal song is "a series of variable loud phrases
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Hunt, Jeffrey S.; Bermingham, Eldredge; Ricklefs, Robert E. (2001).
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is larger than the nominate but is otherwise similar.
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Little is known about the brown trembler's breeding
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Mimidae
Cinclocerthia
Binomial name
Gould

bird
Mimidae
Saba
St. Kitts
Nevis
Montserrat
Guadeloupe
Dominica
St. Vincent
Lesser Antilles
Caribbean Sea
International Ornithological Committee
grey trembler
phylogenetic

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