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title: "Brown-backed Solitaire"
description: "Myadestes occidentalis — Birds. The brown-backed solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis) is a thrush found in montane pine-oak woodlands from Mexico to Honduras."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/brown-backed-solitaire
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Brown-backed Solitaire

> Myadestes occidentalis — Birds. The brown-backed solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis) is a thrush found in montane pine-oak woodlands from Mexico to Honduras.

- Scientific name: *Myadestes occidentalis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `mountains` (Mountains)
- iNaturalist observations: 3168
- Wikidata: [Q3726393](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3726393)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12949](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12949)

## Names

- en: Brown-backed Solitaire
- de: Braunrückenklarino
- es: Clarín jilguero
- fr: Solitaire à dos brun
- nl: Bruinrugsolitaire
- pl: Klarnetnik brązowoskrzydły

## Countries with the most observations

MX (2437), GT (117), SV (57), HN (42)

## Summary

The brown-backed solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis) is a thrush found in montane pine-oak woodlands from Mexico to Honduras.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-backed_solitaire

## Photo

![Brown-backed Solitaire](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-backed-solitaire/medium.jpg)

Photo: adel-fridus · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62430900

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-backed-solitaire?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).