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Amami Thrush
Zoothera major (Ogawa, 1905)
Turdidae — Thrushes
Amami Thrush, Zoothera major, is a thrush of the family Turdidae that breeds on Amami-Oshima and Kakeromajima in the northern Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan. It is confined to these islands and is closely linked with mature subtropical broadleaved evergreen forest in humid valleys. The bird is a large, strongly marked thrush with warm olive-brown to buff upperparts and whitish underparts covered in heavy black scaling. It has twelve tail feathers and was once treated as part of the scaly thrush group. Its breeding season falls in May and June, when it lays 3-4 eggs.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae — Thrushes
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: Amami-Oshima and Kakeromajima, n Ryukyu Is. (s Japan)
