African Thrush
Turdus pelios
The African Thrush has dark olive-grey upperparts. The underparts show a whitish evenly brown- streaked side throat, the breast is greyish brown and the flanks are pale buff-orange with this colour not extending on to the lower breast, the belly and vent are white. It has a yellow-orange bill. It weighs 46–78 g (1.6–2.8 oz) and measures 21–23 cm (8.3–9.1 in) in length. Voice: The song of the African thrush is a sustained, clear warbling made up of different phrases repeated rather randomly in a sequence. Also a high-pitched squealing flight call.
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Glossy-black Thrush
Turdus serranus
The glossy-black thrush is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 70 to 90 g (2.5 to 3.2 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males of the nominate subspecies T. s. serranus are almost entirely glossy black with a yellow eye-ring and a yellow bill. Adult females have a dark olive-brown head and upperparts, slightly paler and redder underparts, a brownish bill, and no eye-ring. Both sexes have yellow legs and feet. Juvenile males have dark sooty brown upperparts and juvenile females have warm brown upperparts, both with buff spots and streaks. Voice: The glossy-black thrush sings mostly before dawn, usually from an exposed perch in the forest canopy. Its song is unmusical, "a rapidly mumbled te-do-de-de-do-deet, all notes run together, rather shrill, gradually rising throughout, and monotonously repeated at short intervals". Another author similarly describes it as "uninspired, a short and tirelessly repeated phrase that rises toward end, e.g.
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