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ForestCup nestMedium · 106 g
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This is a large and distinctive thrush. The male has black from the chin to the breast with a greyish black tail. The upperparts are grey and the underparts are whitish with orange-red underwing coverts. Females and immatures are similar but the black on the throat and breast is replaced with dusky streaking.
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When to see the Black-throated Thrush
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-throated Thrush
The map shades 30 countries with regular records, and 11 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Finland, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Japan, Iceland, Belgium, Austria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Thailand.
About the Black-throated Thrush
The black-throated thrush is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", red-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species.
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Easily confused with
Grey-winged BlackbirdTurdus boulboulThe grey-winged blackbird is a species of Turdus in the thrush family, found at in the mountains of southern and eastern Asia from the Himalayas to northern Vietnam.
Eyebrowed ThrushTurdus obscurusThis is an attractive thrush, with a grey back and head, the latter having a black eyeline, bordered white above and below.
Sooty ThrushTurdus nigrescensThe sooty thrush is 24 to 25.5 cm (9.4 to 10 in) long and weighs about 96 g (3.4 oz).
Side by side: Black-throated Thrush vs Rufous-collared Thrush · Black-throated Thrush vs Grey-backed Thrush · Black-throated Thrush vs Eyebrowed Thrush · Black-throated Thrush vs Sooty Thrush
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