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Turdus leucomelas · Family Turdidae

Turdus leucomelas

Family Turdidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Turdidae
GBIF occurrence records
412,011
Countries and territories with records
12
Pale-breasted Thrush
Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL · Turdus leucomelas.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 412,011 occurrence records from 12 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (60.4%), Colombia (21.1%), Venezuela (8.9%), Argentina (4.9%) and Paraguay (1.8%); together they account for 97% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Turdus leucomelas combines the genus name Turdus with the species epithet leucomelas. The Warbla app catalog lists 85 species of the genus Turdus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Turdus migratorius, Turdus merula and Turdus philomelos.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 155 species of the family Turdidae. This species ranks 18th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Turdus migratorius. Its record count is 77.3% of the family average (532,772). The family Turdidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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