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Great thrush        Images © Mark A. Chappell

The great thrush is a large bird of high-altitude forests.   Males are shiny black with prominent eye-rings; females are brownish; both sexes have orange bills and legs.   These were photographed in cloud forest near Wayqecha Research Station on the Manu Road, at about 3000 m elevation on the east slope of the Peruvian Andes, and in Tatama National Park in the Western Andes of Colombia.

  • Canon 7D; 500 mm f4 IS lens + 1.4X converter, extension tubes, electronic flash (2011, 2012, 2015)