Creamy-bellied Thrush

The creamy-bellied thrush is 22 to 25 cm (8.7 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 52 to 73 g (1.8 to 2.6 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly olive-brown head with black lores and a brown-streaked white throat. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are the same olive-brown as the head. Their breast and flanks are usually grayish buff that becomes creamy white on the belly and undertail coverts. (Some individuals have pure gray instead of grayish buff underparts.) They have a dark iris, a yellowish bill when breeding and a darker one otherwise, and drab brown legs and feet. Juveniles have dark brown upperparts with buff spots and streaks, mostly brown-mottled buff underparts, and a white chin and belly.

The creamy-bellied thrush is found from extreme eastern Ucayali and eastern Madre de Dios departments in southeastern Peru east across Brazil roughly following a line from southern Acre to central Tocantins and from there north to the Atlantic in Pará. From there its range continues south through the rest of Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay into Argentina. In Argentina it occurs along the eastern slope of the Andes south to Río Negro Province and on the Atlantic to Buenos Aires Province. It has also been recorded as a vagrant in Chile and on the Falkland Islands. The creamy-bellied thrush inhabits a wide variety of semi-open to open landscapes. These include cerrado, light forest and woodland, the edges of denser forest, middle-aged secondary forest, scrublands and thorny thickets, and human-modified areas such as farmland, parks, and gardens. It is primarily a bird of the lowlands and reaches its highest elevation of 2,600 m (8,500 ft) in Bolivia.

The creamy-bellied thrush feeds on invertebrates and fruit. It forages mostly in trees but will do so on the ground near cover.