Genus
Catharus (Brown thrushes and nightingale-thrushes)
Catharus ustulatus. Photo: (c) madfox, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Catharus is a genus of birds in the thrush family Turdidae. It contains the small, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous migrant thrushes of North America and the nightingale-thrushes of Central and South America. Its closest relative is the wood thrush of the monotypic genus Hylocichla, which is sometimes merged into Catharus.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Aves (Birds)
- Order: Passeriformes (Perching birds)
- Family: Turdidae (Thrushes)
- Genus: Catharus (Brown thrushes and nightingale-thrushes)
- Family: Turdidae (Thrushes)
- Order: Passeriformes (Perching birds)
- Class: Aves (Birds)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
