Orange-banded Thrush Geokichla peronii Scientific name definitions

19·5–21·5 cm. Nominate race is deep orange-brown above, connecting to orange-chestnut below on breast and flanks, with white face to upper breast and white belly to undertail-coverts; broad black postocular bar and downward subocular stripe, vague orange-brown submoustachial, white lesser and median wing-coverts and tips of greater coverts, blackish flight-feathers with white outer edges of primaries; bill brownish-black; legs lavender-grey to pale brownish-flesh. Sexes similar. Juvenile has pale shaft streaks and rusty-edged wing spots above, breastband of blackish-and-buff mottling, blackish-spotted rusty flanks. Race <em>audacis</em> is darker above and below than nominate.

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Song , in most months of year, a series of phrases each consisting of three loud, ringing, upslurred whistles followed by a variable set of shorter staccato or chattering notes.

Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Timor and Wetar EBA and Banda Sea Islands EBA. Generally common, but areas of closed-canopy forest are forever diminishing within its range. Moreover, it is feared that trade in this fine songster will increase as numbers of other Lesser Sundaic thrushes are depleted to extinction or near-extinction by trappers. There was no evidence, however, of capture for the bird trade on Wetar, where present species was found widespread and common in 2008–2009 (3 Trainor, C. R., Imanuddin, F. Aldy, P. Verbelen, and J. S. Walker (2009). The birds of Wetar, Banda Sea: one of Indonesia’s forgotten islands. BirdingASIA 12:78–93. Close ).