Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus mexicanus)
About the Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
The black-headed nightingale-thrush (Catharus mexicanus) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae, the thrushes and allies. It is found in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. It has also been recorded as a vagrant in Texas. The black-headed nightingale-thrush was originally described in 1856 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte as Malacocychla mexicana. It was later reassigned to its present genus Catharus that had been erected in 1850. Bonaparte had noted the specie's resemblance to members of Catharus. The black-headed nightingale's further taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, AviList, and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World assign it these four subspecies: C. m. mexicanus (Bonaparte, 1856) C. m. cantator Griscom, 1930 C. m. yaegeri Phillips, AR, 1991
No audio on this page yet
We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 115 recordings for this species: 19 CC BY-NC-SA · 13 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Bicknell's ThrushCatharus bicknellirecording
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusrecording
- Orange-billed Nightingale-ThrushCatharus aurantiirostrisrecording
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-ThrushCatharus fuscaterrecording
- Speckled Nightingale-ThrushCatharus maculatusrecording
- Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.