Abyssinian thrush | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Species of bird

The Abyssinian thrush (Turdus abyssinicus) is a passerine bird in the family Turdidae. It is also known as the African mountain thrush, or northern olive thrush The species was formerly treated as conspecific with the olive thrush (Turdus olivaceus) but the species were split based on the genetic differences. The ranges do not overlap. The Abyssinian thrush is found in Eritrea and other parts of the Horn of Africa, as well as an area to the southeast extending from the African Great Lakes region to north eastern Zambia and Malawi.[2]

The Abyssinian thrush was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeuss Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus abyssinicus.[3][4] Gmelin based his description on "Merle brun dAbissinie" that had been described ...