Buru Thrush Geokichla dumasi Scientific name definitions

17 cm. Plumage is rich rufous-brown above , with incomplete pale eyering and whitish lores, darker wings with two broken (spotted) white wingbars , rusty-brown edges of flight-feathers, tail blackish with rufous-brown edging; black from face to mid-belly, breaking down into black spotting on white and then white from lower belly to (ochre-tinged) undertail-coverts; bill black; legs greyish-flesh to yellowish-brown. Sexes similar. Juvenile is as adult, but with pale shaft streaks and rufous-tinged wing-spotting above, buffy-white below, including vague sub­moustachial and throat, with irregular blackish, buff and rufous mottling across breast and on flanks.

Buru, W of Seram.

Primary montane rainforest, at 700–1500 m; one sighting on moderately sloping ground.

Sedentary.

No information.

Song undocumented. Call a high “pthhhhhhh”.

Eggs in early Feb and juveniles in Apr and May. Also, an adult sitting on nest recorded in Nov. Eggs very pale bluish with small reddish-brown spots. No other information.

Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened (this assessment made when G. joiceyi was included as a race). Restricted-range species: present in Buru EBA. Described as not rare in 1922, and probably uncommon to locally moderately common. Montane forest on Buru relatively secure and intact.