Critically Endangered
Cozumel thrasher
Toxostoma guttatum
The Cozumel thrasher is a bird from the mockingbird family (Mimidae), that is endemic to the island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Appearance
The adult has a brown crown, back, shoulders, and rump that becomes more red in its tint on its lower back and rump. Greater and lesser coverts are a warm brown with concealed white tips, preceded with a black bar. Primaries and secondaries are grayish-brown with warm rufous-brown outer webs.
The thrasher is 21.5 to 24 centimetres (8.5 to 9.4 in) in length.
Published measurements include mass about 53.
Range and habitat
The habitat preferences for the thrasher is thought to be in low and medium deciduous and semi-deciduous forests. It may have once been most abundant in forest edges adjacent to clearings. The Cozumel thrasher is a bird from the mockingbird family (Mimidae), that is endemic to the island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
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
Invasive species are also thought to have impacted the population of the thrasher.
Cozumel thrasher 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 Cozumel thrasher, Wikidata item Q1585778. 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.
