Chinese Blackbird

When to see the Chinese Blackbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chinese Blackbird

The map shades 9 countries with regular records, and 3 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 India, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore.

About the Chinese Blackbird

The Chinese blackbird is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the related common blackbird.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Spectacled ThrushTurdus nudigenisThe spectacled thrush is 23–24 cm (9.1–9.4 in) long and weighs 60 g (2.1 oz). Olive ThrushTurdus olivaceusIt can reach a length of 24 cm (9.4 in) and a weight of at least 101 g (3.6 oz). White-throated ThrushTurdus assimilisThe white-throated thrush is 22 to 26.5 cm (8.7 to 10.4 in) long and weighs about 61 to 90 g (2.2 to 3.2 oz).