Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
Ocellated Thrasher (Toxostoma ocellatum) - HBW 10, p. 493
French: Moqueur ocellé
German: Tropfenspottdrossel
Spanish: Cuitlacoche Ocelado
Taxonomy: Harporhynchus ocellatus P. L. Sclater, 1862, Oaxaca, SW Mexico.
Perhaps most closely related to, and forming a superspecies with, T. curvirostre; both similarly close to the T. rufum superspecies. Monotypic.
Distribution: SC Mexico, from Guanajuato S to near Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird calling from the top of a tree. Locality Monte Albán Archaeological Site, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern)
Paul Clarke 18 March 2010 2 years ago 42 sec 3
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singing nearly motionless for an hour
Locality Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Michael Retter 1 January 2005 3 years ago 3
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Single bird singing softly from dense scrub. Locality Monte Albán Archaeological Site, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern)
Sam Woods 22 March 2009 3 years ago 4
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