Creamy-Bellied Thrush
Turdus amaurochalinus
About This Species
A common garden and woodland thrush across much of South America, it forages mostly on open ground and lawns, hopping and pausing to probe for worms and insects much like other Turdus thrushes. Its rich, musical song is most often heard at dawn from a high perch during the breeding season, which runs through the austral spring and summer. Parks, gardens and forest edges with open grassy patches nearby are the most productive places to look.
Ethical Viewing Guidelines
- It tolerates people reasonably well in urban parks, but keeping a respectful distance of several metres avoids interrupting ground feeding or flushing a bird off a nest hidden in a shrub or tree fork.
- Wild bird protection laws differ across its range of South American countries, so treat nests and eggs as off limits everywhere rather than assuming any single country's rule applies.
- Watching from a bench or path rather than approaching a foraging bird directly is the simplest way to avoid disturbance.
LCAvesPasseriformesTurdidae
Seasonal Activity
250,803 sightings · 2000–2026
Citizen science records via GBIF
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae
Photo
(c) Nicolas Mazzini, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Nicolas Mazzini
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Occurrence data from GBIF.