22 cm. In both sexes the legs are bright yellow. Male has a yellow bill, in the female the bill is grayish with a yellow base. Yellow eye ring. The male is black with a gray back and a gray belly. The female is dark brown above, more buffy below, belly palest. Fine dark streaks on throat. Crissum buff-brown. <NJuvenile females have dark brown upperparts with brown wings and tail: chin whitish becoming buff- yellow on throat and yellowish on breast, spotted finely with brown on chin and throat: brown bars and tips on breast and flanks. <NJuvenile males have slate-brown upperparts with black wings and tail and pale orange spotting to crown, mantle, back and scapulars. <NThe first-winter bird has yellowish- orange tips to median and greater coverts and first-summer birds still retain thin white tips to greater coverts, forming a thin wingbar ^143 .
Song vocalizations 1, 2 and 6 with thrush-like general character, but contains squeaky phrases which are frequently repeated several times. The particular strophes used are specific for each singer. Sometimes mimics other songs. Has a variety of calls | a "wrrr" 3 , a short "writ" 4 , a soft "wek" 5 . Willis and Oniki ^119 note a raucous "iuj".
Mostly arboreal, frequents fruit trees. Sings from a high perch in the forest, usually concealed.
Breeds in Southeast Brazil from November to January..
Common in primary and secondary forest border areas at the coast and the coastal mountains, also in coffee and banana plantations close to forest, from sea level to about 1800 meters
Throughout, occuring further inland as a winter visitor.
15027 Parco Estadual PE Jacupiranga, 10<10>23<10>94, cloudy, 26<91>C, opening in primary rainforest. With /Chiroxiphia caudata, Trogon viridis, Oxyruncus cristatus, Vireo olivaceus, Procnias nudicollis : 1670 Song, Serra dos Org<C4>os, November 12, 2002. Ca 1800 meters, open forest.: 2771 Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary forest.: 11914 Call. Fazenda Intervales 10<10>25<10>00. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Primary forest. With /Trogon viridis, Ramphocaenus melanurus, Procnias nudicollis : 8839 Calls, Serra dos Org<C4>os, Teresopolis, RJ, October 31, 2000, sunny, 20<91>C, forest.: 10561 Song, November 14, 1993, Boraceia, sunny 30<91>C, forest.:
8177 >: 6599 > Juvenile male: 8588 > First year immature:
Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved
Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic
Structured account sections
Description
22 cm. In both sexes the legs are bright yellow. Male has a yellow bill, in the female the bill is grayish with a yellow base. Yellow eye ring. The male is black with a gray back and a gray belly. The female is dark brown above, more buffy below, belly palest. Fine dark streaks on throat. Crissum buff-brown. <NJuvenile females have dark brown upperparts with brown wings and tail: chin whitish becoming buff- yellow on throat and yellowish on breast, spotted finely with brown on chin and throat: brown bars and tips on breast and flanks. <NJuvenile males have slate-brown upperparts with black wings and tail and pale orange spotting to crown, mantle, back and scapulars. <NThe first-winter bird has yellowish- orange tips to median and greater coverts and first-summer birds still retain thin white tips to greater coverts, forming a thin wingbar ^143 .
Voice
Song vocalizations 1, 2 and 6 with thrush-like general character, but contains squeaky phrases which are frequently repeated several times. The particular strophes used are specific for each singer. Sometimes mimics other songs. Has a variety of calls | a "wrrr" 3 , a short "writ" 4 , a soft "wek" 5 . Willis and Oniki ^119 note a raucous "iuj".
Breeding
Breeds in Southeast Brazil from November to January..
Habitat and status
Mostly arboreal, frequents fruit trees. Sings from a high perch in the forest, usually concealed.
Distribution
Common in primary and secondary forest border areas at the coast and the coastal mountains, also in coffee and banana plantations close to forest, from sea level to about 1800 meters
Additional notes
Throughout, occuring further inland as a winter visitor.
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative
Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical
Release history
This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.
Disc 3in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011)in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
The 2011 Disc 1 revision edited this account; the sections listed below differ from the Disc 3 release text.
Sections with genuine 2011 edits (vs the Disc 3 release): description.
Description Disc 1 (2011)
22 cm. In both sexes the legs are bright yellow. Male has a yellow bill, in the female the bill is grayish with a yellow base. Yellow eye ring. The male is black with a gray back and a gray belly. The female is dark brown above, more buffy below, belly palest. Fine dark streaks on throat. Crissum buff-brown. <nJuvenile females have dark brown upperparts with brown wings and tail: chin whitish becoming buff- yellow on throat and yellowish on breast, S<C4>o Paulootted finely with brown on chin and throat: brown bars and tips on breast and flanks. <nJuvenile males have slate-brown upperparts with black wings and tail and pale orange spotting to crown, mantle, back and scapulars. <nThe first-winter bird has yellowish- orange tips to median and greater coverts and first-summer birds still retain thin white tips to greater coverts, forming a thin wingbar ^143 .
Voice Disc 1 (2011)
Song vocalizations 1, 2 and 6 with thrush-like general character, but contains squeaky phrases which are frequently repeated several times. The particular strophes used are specific for each singer. Sometimes mimics other songs. Has a variety of calls | a "wrrr" 3 , a short "writ" 4 , a soft "wek" 5 . Willis and Oniki ^119 note a raucous "iuj".
Behavior Disc 1 (2011)
Mostly arboreal, frequents fruit trees. Sings from a high perch in the forest, usually concealed.
Breeding Disc 1 (2011)
Breeds in Southeast Brazil from November to January..
Habitat and status Disc 1 (2011)
Common in primary and secondary forest border areas at the coast and the coastal mountains, also in coffee and banana plantations close to forest, from sea level to about 1800 meters
Distribution Disc 1 (2011)
Throughout, occuring further inland as a winter visitor.
Historical taxonomy
WORLD
turdus flavipes
Yellow-legged Thrush
Turdidae
Thrushes
CLEMENTS
platycichla flavipes
Yellow-legged Thrush
Turdidae
Thrushes
AOU_HM
platycichla flavipes
Yellow-legged Thrush
Turdidae
Thrushes
Recordings
15027.mp3
15027 Parco Estadual PE Jacupiranga, 10<10>23<10>94, cloudy, 26<91>C, opening in primary rainforest. With /Chiroxiphia caudata, Trogon viridis, Oxyruncus cristatus, Vireo olivaceus, Procnias nudicollis
