Rufous-brown Solitaire Cichlopsis leucogenys Scientific name definitions
Revision Notes
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Catalan | solitari ocre de Bahia |
Dutch | Roodbruine Solitaire |
English | Rufous-brown Solitaire |
English (United States) | Rufous-brown Solitaire |
French | Grive roux-brun |
French (France) | Grive roux-brun |
German | Rostrückenklarino |
Japanese | キノドヒトリツグミ |
Norwegian | brunsolitærtrost |
Polish | klarnetnik rdzawy |
Portuguese (Brazil) | sabiá-castanho |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Sabiá-castanho |
Russian | Рыжеватый кларино |
Serbian | Riđi neotropski drozd |
Slovak | drozd samotársky |
Spanish | Solitario Ocre |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Solitario Rufimoreno |
Spanish (Peru) | Solitario Rufo-Marrón |
Spanish (Spain) | Solitario ocre |
Spanish (Venezuela) | Paraulata Gargantianaranjada |
Swedish | brun solitärtrast |
Turkish | Kızıl Sırtlı Soliter |
Ukrainian | Дрізд-самітник |
Revision Notes
Harold F. Greeney revised the account and standardized the content with Clements taxonomy. Peter Pyle contributed to the Plumages, Molts, and Structure page. Arnau Bonan Barfull curated the media. Claire Walter copyedited the account.
Cichlopsis leucogenys Cabanis, 1851
Definitions
- CICHLOPSIS
- leucogenis / leucogenus / leucogenys
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Introduction
Rufous-brown Solitaire is a poorly known thrush that inhabits primary forests or those in advanced states of regeneration. Four subspecies are currently recognized, and evidence from plumage and some vocal variation combined with their highly disjunct ranges suggests that more than one species might be involved. Overall, this is a rather bland, featureless, brown bird, relieved by a pale yellow eye-ring and varying amounts of rufous on the throat. Unlike some solitaires, which sing almost all day, this species seems to mainly vocalize early in the morning and is strongly seasonal in this respect. At other times, the Rufous-brown Solitaire is generally quiet and easily overlooked as it forages in the undergrowth for fruit and insects. Populations are found in southeast Venezuela and the northern Guianas, the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil, east-central Peru, and southwest Colombia to northwest Ecuador, but the Rufous-brown Solitaire seems rarely to be anything other than locally fairly common, and is usually rare in most areas of its range. It has been listed as Near Threatened in the past, and the nominate subspecies that is endemic to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is, on its own, evaluated as Endangered. Very little is known of this species’ ecology and natural history.