Black-throated Thrush vs Sooty Thrush

Black-throated Thrush

Turdus atrogularis

Medium106 gForest

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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Photo: Ксения Волянская · CC BY 4.0

Sooty Thrush

Turdus nigrescens

Medium96 gForest

The sooty thrush is 24 to 25.5 cm (9.4 to 10 in) long and weighs about 96 g (3.4 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a mostly brownish black head and body with sooty black lores and an orange eye-ring. Their wings and tail are also sooty black. Adult females resemble males but are browner overall and sometimes have some darker streaks on the throat. Both sexes have a white iris, a yellow-orange bill, and orange legs and feet. Juveniles have dark brown upperparts with buff streaks and buff underparts with dark brown spots. Voice: The sooty thrush's song is "relatively poor, a series of short phrases each repeated 3–6 times with a few seconds’ pause...chuweek chuweek chuweek...seechrrrzit seechrrrzit seechrrrzit...tseeur tseeu tseeur tseeur". Its calls include a "distinctive low grating grrrek or trrrr" that is often repeated, a "thin rolling prrreee", and a "harsh tchweerp, tchweerp".

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Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0

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