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Guadalcanal Thrush Zoothera turipavae Scientific name definitions

Nigel Collar
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2005

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Field Identification

20 cm. Male is dusky olive-brown above from crown to tail; has two very faint pale-spotted wingbars; brown-flecked whitish face and throat, shading below to heavy brown scalloping on buffish-grey ground colour, buffy flanks; bill small, blackish; legs dark brownish. Sexes apparently similar. Immature has pale shaft streaks above, browner wings, two orange-spotted wingbars.

Systematics History

Often treated as conspecific with Z. margaretae. Has also been treated as a race of Z. talaseae, but this very inappropriate on basis of plumage. Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Guadalcanal, in S Solomon Is.

Habitat

Forest, at transition between montane forest and mossy forest (mist-forest); 1450–1500m.

Movement

Presumed sedentary.

Diet and Foraging

No information. Presumably forages largely on ground.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Song, regularly at dawn (moving songpost every few minutes), rarely in day, loud and melodic, a series of slurred whistles, short trills and repeated modulated whistles, with occasional call notes. Call a very thin high-pitched “tssss”, occasionally lengthened into a hiss.

Breeding

No information.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife NT Near Threatened

VULNERABLE. Restricted-range species: present in Solomon Group EBA. Presumed to have very low total population of between 250 and 1000 mature individuals within its tiny range (97 km²). Recorded only three times, in 1953, 1994 and 1997, at type locality. Altitudinal range lies above areas of logging activity on Guadalcanal, but introduced mammalian predators, such as cats and rats, are known to be fairly common at high elevations on the island, and may well pose a serious threat. Research needed in order to determine if the species is more numerous and widespread than evidence to date suggests.

Distribution of the Guadalcanal Thrush - Range Map
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Distribution of the Guadalcanal Thrush

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Recommended Citation

Collar, N. (2020). Guadalcanal Thrush (Zoothera turipavae), 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.sacthr3.01
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