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Yellow-legged thrush

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O'Shea, B.J.; Milensky, Christopher M.; Claramunt, Santiago; Schmidt, Brian K.; Gebhard, Christina A.; Schmitt, C. Gregory & Erskine, Kristine T. (2007): New records for Guyana, with description of the voice of Roraiman Nightjar
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is 22–23 cm (8.7–9.1 in) long and weighs 55–70 g (1.9–2.5 oz). Both sexes have yellow legs and eye-ring. The male has a yellow bill and its
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Strewe, Ralf & Navarro, Cristobal (2004): New and noteworthy records of birds from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region, north-eastern Colombia.
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is usually black with a slate-grey back and lower underparts. However, the hue of the grey areas varies, and the male of one of the five
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Machado, C.G. (1999): A composição dos bandos mistos de aves na Mata Atlântica da Serra de Paranapiacaba, no sudeste brasileiro .
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The nest is a lined shallow cup of twigs on a bank or amongst rocks. Two or three reddish-blotched green or blue eggs are laid.
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The yellow-legged thrush mainly feeds in trees and bushes, infrequently on the ground, and mostly eats
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Machado (1999), Clement & Hathaway (2000), Hilty (2003), Strewe & Navarro (2004), O'Shea
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female, but is duller, flecked with orange above and spotted and barred with dark brown below.
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male is brownish with black wings and tail, while the juvenile female resemble the
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ffrench, Richard; O'Neill, John Patton & Eckelberry, Don R. (1991):
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also take part in local movements, but these are not well understood.
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It is fairly common in most of its range, and therefore listed as
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again, however some taxonomists place this species in the genus
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In recent times, it is increasingly often placed in the
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Turdidae
Turdus
Binomial name
Vieillot

Synonyms
songbird
South America
Caribbean
genus
Turdus
Platycichla
South American Classification Committee
American Ornithologists' Union
International Ornithological Committee
thrush
plumage
subspecies

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