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
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
Thrush (bird)
…Hylocichla – wood thrush Catharus – American thrushes and nightingale-thrushes (13 species) Zoothera – Asian thrushes (22 species, including one recently extinct…
Catharus mexicanus Costa Rica 8
Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), who gave the genus Catharus its name in 1850.