Listen to the Black-faced solitaire
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About the Black-faced solitaire
The Black-faced solitaire is a bird in the family Turdidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults weigh around 32 g.
What does the Black-faced solitaire sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The black-faced solitaire (Myadestes melanops) is a bird in the thrush family endemic to highlands in Costa Rica and western Panama.
This is a bird of dense undergrowth and bamboo clumps in wet mountain forest, normally from 750 to 3,000 m (2,460 to 9,840 ft) altitude. It disperses as low as 400 m (1,300 ft) in the wet season, when it may form loose flocks. It builds a cup nest of mosses and liverworts in a tree crevice, hole in a mossy bank, or concealed amongst mosses and epiphytes in a tree fork up to 3.5 m (11 ft) above the ground. The female lays two or three rufous-brown marked white or pinkish eggs between April and June. The fledging period is 15–16 days.
Related birds in the genus Myadestes
More from the family Turdidae
Common blackbird
Turdus merula
Song thrush
Turdus philomelos
Fieldfare
Turdus pilaris
Mistle thrush
Turdus viscivorus
Ring ouzel
Turdus torquatus
Redwing
Turdus iliacus
American robin
Turdus migratorius
Eastern bluebird
Sialia sialis
Mountain bluebird
Sialia currucoides
Wood thrush
Hylocichla mustelina
Frequently asked questions
What does a Black-faced solitaire sound like?
You can hear 5 recordings of the Black-faced solitaire on this page, including its song. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the Black-faced solitaire endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Black-faced solitaire as “least concern”.
What family does the Black-faced solitaire belong to?
The Black-faced solitaire (Myadestes melanops) belongs to the family Turdidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Costa Rica Chirripo Solitaire Myadestes melanops by Claude Humbert – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · Sendero los Quetzales (Cerro Punta side), Panama by Oliver Komar – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · National park los quetzales Copey District, Dota, San… by Pichard Olivier – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 5- myadestes quiet song – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 4- myadestes loud song – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q665488 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Black-faced solitaire – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Cephas – CC BY-SA 4.0