Solitaire (bird)
This article is about the New World
passerine birds called solitaires. There are unrelated and extinct birds named
Réunion Solitaire and
Rodrigues Solitaire.
There is also a type of card game called solitaire.
The Solitaires are medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the genera Myadestes, Cichlopsis and Entomodestes of the thrush family Turdidae.
These are species of the Americas and Hawaii.
Species list:
- Townsend's Solitaire, Myadestes townsendi
- Brown-backed Solitaire, Myadestes occidentalis
- Cuban Solitaire, Myadestes elisabeth
- Rufous-throated Solitaire, Myadestes genibarbis
- Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops
- Varied Solitaire, Myadestes coloratus
- Slate-colored Solitaire, Myadestes unicolor
- Andean Solitaire, Myadestes ralloides
- Kamao, Myadestes myadestinus
- Olomao, Myadestes lanaiensis
- Omao, Myadestes obscurus
- Puaiohi, Myadestes palmeri
- Rufous-brown Solitaire, Cichlopsis leucogenys
- White-eared Solitaire, Entomodestes leucotis
- Black Solitaire, Entomodestes coracinus