Black-eared ground thrush

Black-eared ground thrush
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Geokichla
Species: G. camaronensis
Binomial name
Geokichla camaronensis
(Sharpe, 1905)
Synonyms

Zoothera camaronensis

The black-eared ground thrush (Geokichla cameronensis) is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The subspecies G. c. kibalensis of the Kibale Forest in western Uganda is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Kibale ground-thrush.

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