Endangered
Martinique thrasher
Ramphocinclus brachyurus
Martinique thrasher is a perching bird in the family Mimidae (order Passeriformes) — Ramphocinclus brachyurus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
An adult bird has a dark brown plumage with a white throat, breast, and belly. Its dark beak is long and slightly decurved towards the tip. Males and females are sexually monomorphic, thus identical in size and coloration.
The Martinique thrasher is in average 23 to 25 cm long, and weight from 48 to 60 g depending on sex.
Range and habitat
Because the Martinique thrasher is endemic to Martinique, its range is dangerously small for species survival. Its habitat is restricted to a 5 km^2, now protected, area called the Caravelle Peninsula. The Martinique thrasher prefers deciduous tropical dry forests and shrub lands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Martinique thrasher's diet is adaptable and goes from animal proteins to fruits. The Martinique thrasher's breeding season starts mid-April and lasts until the end of September.
A breeding bird can have up to four successive broods in one breeding season and the average clutch size varies from 1 to 3 eggs. Before using a nest, a pair of birds usually build several of them.
In crisis
This resident species is easy to find within its range. Even so, it is classified as endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species mainly due to its restricted habitat. The Martinique thrasher total population is estimated at 133-267 individuals and is ranked as "endangered" according to the IUCN Red List. The rate of decline of the population has largely increased due to habitat loss.
The Martinique thrasher is able to coexist with some of its predators such as rats and mongooses. Even so, this predation places an additional burden on the already small thrasher population, especially where rats and mongooses are more abundant.
Martinique thrasher 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 Martinique thrasher, Wikidata item Q2225784. 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.
