Pale-breasted Thrush (Turdus leucomelas)
About the Pale-breasted Thrush
The pale-breasted thrush (Turdus leucomelas) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in every mainland South American country except Chile and Ecuador. The pale-breasted thrush was originally described in 1818 with the binomial Turdus leucomelas and has retained it ever since. However, taxonomic systems differ in their assignment of subspecies. The IOC, the Clements taxonomy, and AviList assign it these four subspecies: T. l. albiventer Spix, 1824 T. l. cautor Wetmore, 1946 T. l. upichiarum Stiles & Avendaño, 2019 T. l. leucomelas Vieillot, 1818 However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World does not recognize T. l. upichiarum. This article follows the IOC et al. four-subspecies model.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 444 recordings for this species: 24 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 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.
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Listed as recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Abyssinian ThrushTurdus abyssinicusrecording
- American RobinTurdus migratoriusrecording
- Andean Slaty ThrushTurdus nigricepsrecording
- Austral ThrushTurdus falcklandiirecording
- Black-billed ThrushTurdus ignobilisrecording
- Chestnut-bellied ThrushTurdus fulviventrisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.