Ethiopian Thrush
Turdus simensis
A long-legged short-tailed thrush with brown upperparts, heavily spotted buff underparts, and a strongly marked face. In flight, shows distinctive large buff patches in the broad wings. Pairs and small groups occupy open montane habitats, including moorland, grassland, and woodland, often in heavily grazed and burned areas. Runs long distances on the ground hunting invertebrates, stopping bolt upright and flicking its wings. The song is a series of rough, spitted whistles. Calls include an upslurred “wheet” given singly or in series, and a dry rattle.
识别特征
The Ethiopian thrush (Turdus simensis) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found primarily in Ethiopia, and also locally in Eritrea. It is a medium-sized thrush 20–22 cm long, with a brown back, two vertical dark brown bars on the face, a spotted breast and belly, and (for a thrush) an unusually short tail. Compared to the closely related groundscraper thrush (T. litsitsirupa) from further south in Africa, it is browner, less grey-coloured above, and has a less marked (though still obvious) face pattern.
分类信息
The Ethiopian thrush was formally described in 1837 by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell from a specimen collected in northern Ethiopia. He used the scientific name Merula (Turdus) simensis. The specific epithet is from the type locality, the Simien Mountains.<p>This thrush has sometimes been considered as a subspecies of the groundscraper thrush (Turdus litsitsirupa).
- 学名
- Turdus simensis
- 命名信息
- (Rüppell, 1837)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Turdidae
- 属
- Turdus
分布与栖息地
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
Migration pattern: Resident species.
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- unknown
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