The genus Catharus is an evolutionary clade of forest-dwelling passerine birds in the family Turdidae, commonly known as nightingale-thrushes. The extant species are widely distributed across the Amer
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Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), who gave the genus Catharus its name in 1850.
The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the c
Catharus
…The genus Catharus is an evolutionary clade of forest-dwelling passerine birds in the family Turdidae (thrushes), commonly known as nightingale-thrushes. The extant species are widely distributed across the Americas and are descended from a common…