- Title
- Additional morphological characteristics of Olive Thrushes and Karoo Thrushes
- Creator
- Bonnevie, Bo T, Craig, Adrian J F K, Hulley, Patrick E
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447712
- Identifier
- vital:74669
- Identifier
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2989/00306520409485415
- Description
- A southern race of the Olive Thrush, Turdus olivaceus smithi Bonaparte, has recently been proposed as a full species, the Karoo Thrush Turdus smithi (Bowie et al. 2003). Some of the published information on the Olive Thrush Turdus olivaceus olivaceus thus pertains to the Karoo Thrush (eg Kopij 2000), whereas other information deals specifically with the Olive Thrush (eg Winterbottom 1966, Bonnevie et al. 2003). We have ringed, recaptured and recovered both Olive and Karoo Thrushes in the Eastern Cape since 1986, and the two taxa are markedly different in this region. We describe some differences in appearance of the two populations from these data, and compare mass and wing length of living birds, as well as culmen and tarsus lengths of museum specimens from the East London Museum, South Africa. The collection sites of the museum specimens were mapped using ArcView 3.1 (ESRI 1996) together with the ringing sites (Figure 1). Areas of potential sympatry are Oudtshoorn (33 25’S, 22 11’E) and Patensie (33 45’S, 24 48’E).
- Format
- 3 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ostrich, Bonnevie, B.T., Craig, A.J. and Hulley, P.E., 2004. Additional morphological characteristics of Olive Thrushes and Karoo Thrushes. Ostrich-Journal of African Ornithology, 75(1-2), pp.75-76, Ostrich volume 75 number 1-2 75 76 2004 1727-947X
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Bonnevie, Bo Tørris (Mr)
Hulley, Patrick Elliot (Assoc Prof Emeritus)
Craig, Adrian JFK (Prof)
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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