Solitario Ocráceo/Rufous-brown Solitaire/Cichlopsis leucogenys

Nombre en español: Solitario Ocráceo

Nombre en ingles: Rufous-brown Solitaire

Nombre científico: Cichlopsis leucogenys

Familia: Turdidae

Canto: Andrew Spencer

El solitario ocre (Cichlopsis leucogenys) también denominado solitario ocráceo, solitario rufimoreno, clarín castaño y paraulata gargantianaranjada, es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Turdidae que vive en Sudamérica. Es la única especie del género Cichlopsis.

Descripción

Mide de 20,5 a 21 cm de longitud. El plumaje es de color castaño, con el centro de la garganta es anaranjado rojizo o rufo y el vientre claro grisáceo.

Distribución y hábitat

Se encuentra en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela.

Sus hábitats naturales son las selvas húmedas tropicales, en elevaciones superiores a los 700 m de altitud, principalmente hacia los 800 msnm y aún más alto en los tepuyes.

Rufous-brown solitaire

The rufous-brown solitaire (Cichlopsis leucogenys) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Four subspecies of the Rufous-brown Solitaire are currently recognized, and evidence from plumage and some vocal variation, combined of course 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 day-long, this species seems to mainly vocalize early in the morning, and to be 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.