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Fawn-breasted Thrush Zoothera machiki Scientific name definitions

Nigel Collar
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated June 14, 2019

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Field Identification

21–22 cm. Rather warm mid-brown above , shading to slightly russet on rump and tail, with very slight darker scaling on body feathers; pale-edged wings with two well-marked pale wingbars; throat , breast and central belly pale golden-buff, lightly scaled black, merging on to whitish lower belly and flanks, rather more heavily scled black; bill black, yellowish base of lower mandible; legs ochraceous-flesh. Sexes similar. Juvenile unknown.

Systematics History

Has been considered a subspecies of Z. dauma. Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Tanimbar Is (Yamdena, Larat).

Habitat

Primary forest; occasionally secondary scrub and recently burnt areas.

Movement

Sedentary.

Diet and Foraging

Forages in dense scrub, but also in open on tracks through wooded areas.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Song a series of plain whistled or piping notes; call a sharp “tsit”.

Breeding

No information.
Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near-threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Banda Sea Islands EBA. Locally common in primary forest. Significant logging activity in S Yamdena must be reducing habitat within its very small range.
Distribution of the Fawn-breasted Thrush - Range Map
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Distribution of the Fawn-breasted Thrush

Recommended Citation

Collar, N. (2020). Fawn-breasted Thrush (Zoothera machiki), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.fabthr1.01
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