Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Turdidae > Myadestes > Myadestes genibarbisMyadestes genibarbis (Rufous-throated Solitaire)The rufous-throated solitaire (Myadestes genibarbis) is a species of bird placed in the family Turdidae. It is found on Dominica, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The bird is nicknamed the siffleur montagne (or mountain whistler) in Dominica; a local folk group of the early 1970s, the Siffleur Montagne Chorale, named themselves after it. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.62375 EDGE Score: 2.15452 |
Adult Weight [1] | 29 grams | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 60 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 8 inches (20 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Hispaniolan moist forests |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Jamaican moist forests |
Jamaica |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Armando Bermudez National Park |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Aux Becs-Croisés |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Aux Cornichons |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Aux Diablotins |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Blue Mountains |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Bluefields |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Bois Musicien |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Catadupa |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Cockpit Country |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Colonarie Forest Reserve |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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Cumberland Forest Reserve |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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Dalaway Forest Reserve |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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Dolphin Head |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Eastern Bahoruco |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Forêts du Nord et de la Montagne Pelée |
Martinique (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Government Forest Reserve |
St Lucia |
A1, A2 |
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Haitises |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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John Crow Mountains |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Kingstown Forest Reserve |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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La Soufrière National Park |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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Litchfield Mountain: Matheson's Run |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Loma La Humeadora |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Loma Quita Espuela |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Morne Diablotin National Park |
Dominica |
A1, A2 |
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Morne Trois Pitons National Park |
Dominica |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Diablo |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Pleasant Forest Reserve |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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Nalga de Maco-Río Limpio |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Pitons du Carbet |
Martinique (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Richmond Forest Reserve |
St Vincent and the Grenadines |
A1, A2 |
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Sierra de Bahoruco |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Sierra de Neyba |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Sierra Martin Garcia |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Valle Nuevo |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Yallahs |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, B4i |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Arendt, W.J.; Faaborg, J.; Wallace, G.E.; Garrido, O.H. 2004. Biometrics of
birds throughout the Greater Caribbean basin. Proceedings of the Western
Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. 8(1): 1-33. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 5"Bird Activity and Seed Dispersal of a Montane Forest Tree (Dunalia arborescens) in Jamaica", Alexander Cruz, Biotropica Vol. 13, No. 2, Supplement: Reproductive Botany (Jun., 1981), pp. 34-44 ♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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