Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Chestnut-capped Thrush (Geokichla interpres), recorded as Endangered
Chestnut-capped Thrush (Geokichla interpres). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Chestnut-capped Thrush

Geokichla interpres

The chestnut-capped thrush lives in forests and woodlands of Southeast Asia.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Geokichla interpres
Taxonomy
Aves · Passeriformes · Turdidae · Geokichla

Appearance

The chestnut-capped thrush has a black back and a white belly with black spots. Its face is black with a white mark on the cheeks and another on the lores. The superficially similar chestnut-backed thrush is substantially larger when seen alongside one another, and has a black crown and rufous back, whereas the Enggano thrush has an olive-ochre back and little or no white on the lores and auriculars.

Range and habitat

The chestnut-capped thrush lives in forests and woodlands of Southeast Asia.

Habitat labels include forest.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Habits

Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.

In crisis

Even so, small numbers have been held in private European aviaries since the mid-1990s and very small numbers remain as of late 2009. Consequently, it was uplisted to Near Threatened status in 2008 and once again to Endangered in 2020.

Chestnut-capped Thrush is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Chestnut-capped Thrush, Wikidata item Q769977. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Chestnut-capped Thrush?
The chestnut-capped thrush lives in forests and woodlands of Southeast Asia.
What is the conservation status of Chestnut-capped Thrush?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Geokichla interpres. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Chestnut-capped Thrush live?
The chestnut-capped thrush lives in forests and woodlands of Southeast Asia.
Why is Chestnut-capped Thrush in crisis?
Consequently, it was uplisted to Near Threatened status in 2008 and once again to Endangered in 2020.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Geokichla interpres?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Chestnut-capped Thrush a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.