Avibase: Turdus ignobilis (Black-billed Thrush)

Black-billed Thrush

Turdus ignobilis Sclater, PL 1858

The black-billed thrush is a bird in the family Turdidae native to Colombia and also scantily distributed across Venezuela, the Guiana Shield and the western Amazon. Source: Wikipedia

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Turdidae
Genus:
   Turdus
Scientific:
  Turdus ignobilis

Original description

Citation:
Sclater, PL 1858

Reference:
Proc. Zool. Soc. London pt.25, no.344 p.273

Imprint year:
1857

Protonym:
Turdus ignobilis

Type locality:
Nova Grenada [= Bogotá] .

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100996#page/285/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
F2FC64EAC40AD921

Avibase ID:
avibase-F2FC64EA

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/F2FC64EA

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 563584

Geographic range:

Turdus ignobilis: humid forest, woodland and borders, and gallery forest in the Sierra de Perijá and foothills of the Andes of western Venezuela and west of the Andes southwards to far southern Colombia (Pasto), the Amazon basin from southern Venezuela southwards to central Bolivia, and Brazil mostly in the western Amazon eastwards along the Amazon River to northeastern Pará and southwards to western Mato Grosso
Turdus ignobilis ignobilis: eastern and central Andes of Colombia
Turdus ignobilis goodfellowi: Colombia (Cauca Valley and west slope of western Andes)
Turdus ignobilis [debilis or cururuensis]: eastern Colombia to western Venezuela, northwestern Brazil, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Black-billed Thrush
Azerbaijani:
qaradimdik qaratoyuq
Bulgarian:
Черноклюн дрозд
Catalan:
merla becnegra
Czech:
drozd černozobý
Danish:
Sortnæbbet Drossel
German:
Schwarzschnabeldrossel
Esperanto:
nigrabeka turdo
Spanish:
Zorzal Piquinegro
Spanish (Spain):
Zorzal piquinegro
Estonian:
ljaanorästas
Finnish:
nurmikkorastas
French:
Merle à bec noir
Croatian:
kolumbijski kos
Hungarian:
feketecsőrű rigó
Italian:
Tordo becconero
Japanese:
ハシグロムジツグミ
Lithuanian:
juodasnapis strazdas
Dutch:
Zwartsnavellijster
Norwegian:
Svartnebbtrost
Polish:
drozd czarnodzioby
Portuguese:
caraxué-de-bico-preto
Portuguese (Brazil):
caraxué-de-bico-preto
Portuguese (Portugal):
tordo-de-bico-preto
Russian:
Черноклювый дрозд
Slovak:
drozd čiernozobý
Serbian:
Crnokljuni drozd
Swedish:
svartnäbbad trast
Turkish:
Kara gagalı ardıç
Ukrainian:
дрізд чорнодзьобий
Chinese:
黑嘴鸫
Chinese (Traditional):
黑嘴鶇

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Avilist 2025: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Clements, version 2021: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Clements, version 2022: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Clements, version 2023: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Clements, version 2024: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Clements, version 2025: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
Clements, version 2019: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
eBird version 2019: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
eBird version 2021: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
eBird version 2022: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
eBird version 2023: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
eBird version 2024: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
eBird version 2025: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (6/06/2019): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (20/02/2020): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (8/06/2020): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (24/08/2021): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (24/07/2022): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (28/09/2023): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (27/07/2024): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]
South American Classification Committee (31/07/2025): Black-billed Thrush ( Turdus ignobilis) [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: full species (sometimes nominal subspecies)

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Turdus [ignobilis, murinus or arthuri] (sensu lato) by some authors

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