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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Turdidae.

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Examples

  • Key species are the dwarf honeyguide Indicator pumilio, African green broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri, Lagden's bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni, Kivu ground thrush Zoothera tanganjicae, Oberlander's ground thrush Z. oberlaenderi, Grauer's rush warbler Bradypterus graueri, Chaplin's flycatcher Muscicapa lendu and dusky crimsonwing Cryptospiza shelleyi.

    Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda 2009

  • Other species with an Afromontane distribution include bar-tailed trogon (Apaloderma vittatum), scarce swift (Schoutedenapus myioptilus), orange thrush (Zoothera gurneyi) and African black swift (Apus barbatus sladeniae).

    Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

  • Other threatened forest bird species occurring are the spotted ground thrush (Zoothera guttata, EN) and the white-winged apalis (Apalis chariessa, VU).

    South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

  • These include the Ryukyu pigeon (Columba jouyi) and Bonin wood-pigeon (C. versicolor), the Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris), and the Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris), a monotypic genus.

    Biological diversity in Japan 2008

  • Another globally threatened bird found in the ecoregion is the spotted ground thrush (Zoothera guttata EN).

    Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets 2008

  • There is one near-endemic bird species, the forest ground-thrush (Zoothera oberlaenderi).

    Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic 2007

  • These species comprised another wood pigeon, a Zoothera thrush, and Chaunoproctus grosbeak endemic to Bonin.

    Ogasawara subtropical moist forests 2007

  • The jungle and woods which surrounded the park appearing to abound in birds, I went to shoot a few, and was rewarded by getting several specimens of the fine new kingfisher, Halcyon fulgidus, and the curious and handsome ground thrush, Zoothera andromeda.

    The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Examples include the Yunnan lake newt (Cynops wolterstorffi) from China, the Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris) from Japan, or the redtailed black shark

    Mongabay.com News Jeremy Hance 2010

  • Examples include the Yunnan lake newt (Cynops wolterstorffi) from China, the Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris) from Japan, or the redtailed black shark (Epalzeorhynchos bicolor) from Thailand.

    Mongabay.com News Jeremy Hance 2010

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