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Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyTurdidae
Observations recorded5,410
via GBIF · IUCN
Bird sounds
- song· Papua New Guinea· quality A
- song· Papua New Guinea· quality A
- call· Philippines· quality A
- song· France· quality A
via Xeno-canto
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Turdus poliocephalus
- Commons category
- Turdus poliocephalus
- taxon common name
- tordo-insular
- litter size
- 1.7
- egg incubation period
- 18
- short name
- T. poliocephalus
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tasman Sea island thrush (Turdus poliocephalus) is an extinct forest bird in the thrush family that was formerly found on Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the "island thrush" complex that has been split into 17 species based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023. The two subspecies of the Tasman Sea island thrush became extinct in historical times.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turdus poliocephalus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.