The name Bare-eyed Thrush can also refer to the African Bare-eyed Thrush

African Bare-eyed Thrush

The African Bare-eyed Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family.It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.-References:...

, Turdus tephronotus

The Bare-eyed Thrush, Spectacled Thrush, or Yellow-eyed Thrush (Turdus nudigenis), is a resident breeding bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Lesser Antilles

Lesser Antilles

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 and in South America

South America

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 from Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 and Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

 south and east to northern Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. In Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

, this thrush

Thrush (bird)

The thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds that occur worldwide.-Characteristics:Thrushes are plump, soft-plumaged, small to medium-sized birds, inhabiting wooded areas, and often feed on the ground or eat small fruit. The smallest thrush may be the Forest Rock-thrush, at and...

 is also known as Big-eye Grieve.

The similar but allopatric Ecuadorian Thrush

Ecuadorian Thrush

The Ecuadorian Thrush, Turdus maculirostris, is a resident bird found in western South America in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Bare-eyed Thrush , Turdus nudigenis, but has a narrower eyering, and is widely separated in range.The...

 was formerly considered a subspecies of the Bare-eyed Thrush and named T. n. maculirostris; it is now normally separated as a good species T. maculirostris. It has a narrower eyering and is only found in forest and woodland in western Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

 and northwestern Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

.

Description

The Bare-eyed Thrush is 23–24 cm long and weighs 60 g. It is plain olive-brown above and paler brown below. The throat is brown-streaked off-white, and the lower belly is whitish. It has a prominent yellow eye ring which gives rise to its English

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 and scientific names.

There are two poorly defined subspecies

Subspecies

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, differing mainly in the darkness of the plumage. Sexes are similar, but young birds are flecked above and spotted below, and have a thinner eye ring.

The song is a musical warble, slower and lower pitched than that of the Cocoa Thrush

Cocoa Thrush

The Cocoa Thrush, Turdus fumigatus, is a resident breeding bird in South America from eastern Colombia south and east to central and eastern Brazil, and on Trinidad and some of the Lesser Antilles....

 (T. fumigatus), and it also produces a cat-like queeoow call and, when uncomfortable, emits a kereel.

Ecology

The habitat of this large thrush is open woodland, forest clearings and cultivation. The Bare-eyed Thrush mainly feeds on or near the ground on fruit

Fruit

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, berries

Berry

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 and some insect

Insect

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s and earthworm

Earthworm

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s. It is a shy species, but on Trinidad

Trinidad

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 and Tobago

Tobago

Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the southern Caribbean, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada. The island lies outside the hurricane belt...

it is much tamer, and will come to feeders and take food from tables.

The nest is a lined bulky cup of twigs low in a tree. The two to three reddish-blotched deep-blue eggs are incubated by the female alone.