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title: "Black-faced Solitaire"
description: "Myadestes melanops — Aves. The black-faced solitaire (Myadestes melanops) is a bird in the thrush family endemic to highlands in Costa Rica and western Panama."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/black-faced-solitaire
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-faced Solitaire

> Myadestes melanops — Aves. The black-faced solitaire (Myadestes melanops) is a bird in the thrush family endemic to highlands in Costa Rica and western Panama.

- Scientific name: *Myadestes melanops*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `mountains` (Montanhas)
- iNaturalist observations: 905
- Wikidata: [Q665488](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665488)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12953](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12953)

## Names

- en: Black-faced Solitaire
- de: Maskenklarino
- es: Solitario carinegro
- fr: Solitaire masqué
- nl: Zwartmaskersolitaire
- pl: Klarnetnik czarnolicy

## Countries with the most observations

CR (675), PA (114)

## Summary

The black-faced solitaire (Myadestes melanops) is a bird in the thrush family endemic to highlands in Costa Rica and western Panama.
This is a bird of dense undergrowth and bamboo clumps in wet mountain forest, normally from 750 to 3,000 m (2,460 to 9,840 ft) altitude. It disperses as low as 400 m (1,300 ft) in the wet season, when it may form loose flocks. It builds a cup nest of mosses and liverworts in a tree crevice, hole in a mossy bank, or concealed amongst mosses and epiphytes in a tree fork up to 3.5 m (11 ft) above the ground. The female lays two or three rufous-brown marked white or pinkish eggs between…

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

## Photo

![Black-faced Solitaire](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-faced-solitaire/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193338610

## Machine access

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