Brown Trembler

Cinclocerthia ruficauda

Temblador Pardo

 

 
Photo: D. Roberson

A very active forest bird, brown with a long bill and a yellow eye. Length: 23-26 cm. Breeds in the Lesser Antilles from Saba south to Saint Vincent. Accidental in the Virgin Islands; may eventually be reported from Puerto Rico.

TAXONOMY: PASSERIFORMES; MIMIDAE

 
   

References

Brewer, D. and B. K. Mackay. 2001.Wrens, dippers and thrashers. 2001. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Hunt, J. S., E. Bermingham and R. E. Ricklefs. 2001. Molecular systematics and biogeography of Antillean thrashers, tremblers, and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae). Auk 118(1):35-55.

Keith, A. R. 1997. The birds of St. Lucia. Brit. Ornith. Union Check-list # 15.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

Brown Trembler, Spanish text

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