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Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush
Catharus dryas (Gould, 1855)
Turdidae — Thrushes
Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush, Catharus dryas, is a thrush of Middle America, breeding from southern Mexico to north-western Nicaragua. It belongs to the family Turdidae and was first described by Gould in 1855. It is a resident bird and is mainly associated with humid tropical and subtropical forest, especially damp ravines and streamside areas. South of Mexico it also uses pine-oak forest and higher-elevation coffee plantations. Its breeding range is split across several separate areas, including parts of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and north-western Nicaragua.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae — Thrushes
- Breeding range
- Middle America: s Mexico to nw Nicaragua
