Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
Catharus mexicanus (Bonaparte, 1856)
Turdidae — Thrushes
Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus mexicanus, is a thrush of Middle America, breeding from eastern Mexico south to Panama. It lives in lowland and montane evergreen forest, and also uses pine-oak forest in Guatemala and Honduras. The species is split into four subspecies across its range. Adult males of the nominate form show a black crown, a dark grey face and a bright orange eye-ring, while all forms have orange bills, legs and feet. It was first described in 1856 by Bonaparte.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae — Thrushes
- Breeding range
- Middle America: ec Mexico to Panama
