Solitaire (bird)

Solitaires
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Division: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae
Genera
Myadestes Cichlopsis Entomodestes

This article is about the New World passerine birds called solitaires. For the unrelated and extinct Réunion Solitaire and Rodrigues Solitaire, see Dodo.

There is also a type of card game called solitaire.

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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