White-breasted thrasher

White-breasted thrasher
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae
Genus: Ramphocinclus
Lafresnaye, 1843
Species: R. brachyurus
Binomial name
Ramphocinclus brachyurus
(Vieillot, 1818)

The white-breasted thrasher (Ramphocinclus brachyurus) is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Ramphocinclus.[2] It is found in Martinique and Saint Lucia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Ramphocinclus brachyurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Thomas M. Brooks, John D. Pilgrim, Ana S. L. Rodrigues & Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca (2005). "Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history". In Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman & Thomas Brooks. Phylogeny and Conservation. Conservation Biology 8. Cambridge University Press. pp. 267–294. ISBN 978-0-521-82502-3.