Thrush-like Schiffornis Schiffornis turdina

Thrush-like Schiffornis Schiffornis turdina
(aka Thrush-like Mourner)

Brazilian name: Flautim-marrom

Thrush-like Schiffornis, Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image

Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil
November 2008

There is some doubt as to the relationship of the Schiffornis genus to other families. They seem to fall somewhere between true manakins, cotingas and tyrant flycatchers.

The Thrush-like Schiffornis is distributed from southern Mexico through Central America to the Amazon Basin with a disjunct population in eastern Brazil.

It is normally found in the interior of humid forest and only occasionally at the forest edge. It feeds in fruits and insects.

It is uniform dull brown above with some rufous on the edges of the wing feathers and greyish-brown below.

There are recordings on xeno-canto, a distribution map from NatureServe and additional information available via Avibase.

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