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African Thrush - Turdus pelios - Pelioslijster
West- and Central-Africa.
The following 10 subspecies are being recognised:
Turdus pelios pelios - East-Cameroon to Chad, South-Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia;
Turdus pelios saturatus - West-Ghana to Cameroon, West-Congo and Gabon;
Turdus pelios chiguancoides - Senegal to Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and North-Ghana;
Turdus pelios adamauae - North-Cameroon (Adamawa Plateau);
Turdus pelios centralis - North-Congo to South-Sudan, Southwest-Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania;
Turdus pelios graueri - East-Congo to Rwanda, Burundi and West-Tanzania;
Turdus pelios nigrilorum - Highlands of North-Cameroon;
Turdus pelios poensis - Bioko (Gulf of Guinea);
Turdus pelios bocagei - West-Angola to West-Congo;
Turdus pelios stormsi - Southeast-Congo to Northeast-Angola and Northwest-Zambia.
Of this species there are no Zoo Photo's available.