About the Blue Whistling Thrush
The blue whistling thrush is a bird in the Old World flycatchers family Muscicapidae that is found in the mountains of Central Asia, South Asia, China and Southeast Asia. It is known for its loud human-like whistling song at dawn and dusk. The widely distributed populations show variations in size and plumage, with six subspecies accepted. Like others in the genus, they feed on the ground, often along streams and in damp places, foraging for snails, crabs, insects, and fruit.
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Blue whistling thrush is dark violet blue with shiny pale blue to white spangling on the tips of the body feathers other than on the lores, abdomen and under the tail. The wing coverts are a slightly different shade of blue and the median coverts have white spots at their tips. The bill is black in nominate M. c. caeruleus, but yellow and stands in contrast in the other five subspecies; the legs are black in all. The inner webs of the flight and tail feathers is black. The sexes are similar in plumage. It measures 29–35 cm (11–14 in) in length.
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Where the Blue Whistling Thrush lives
When to see the Blue Whistling Thrush
Peak activity in February · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Malabar Whistling ThrushMyophonus horsfieldiiThe Malabar whistling thrush is a whistling thrush in the family Muscicapidae.
Taiwan Whistling ThrushMyophonus insularisIts length is 28 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in).
Bornean Whistling ThrushMyophonus borneensisThe Bornean whistling thrush is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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