Critically Endangered
Principe Thrush
Turdus xanthorhynchus
Principe Thrush is a perching bird in the family Turdidae (order Passeriformes) — Turdus xanthorhynchus, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to São Tomé and Príncipe.
The perching bird
Principe Thrush is a perching bird in the family Turdidae (order Passeriformes) — Turdus xanthorhynchus.
Range and habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Although some attribute this to habitat loss, the latest evidence from knowledgeable local guides suggests that the threat is from nest predation by the rapidly increasing population of invasive monkeys, that have been caught on camera traps stealing eggs.
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
It is critically endangered.
Principe Thrush is Critically 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 Principe Thrush, Wikidata item Q1585584. 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.
