Cocoa Thrush vs White-chinned Thrush

Cocoa Thrush

Turdus fumigatus

Medium76 gForest

The cocoa thrush is 21.5 to 24 cm (8.5 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 55 to 83 g (1.9 to 2.9 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies T. f. fumigatus have a foxy-brown head, upperparts, wings, and tail. Their throat is whitish buff with dark streaks, their breast and flanks pale orange-brown, and their belly to vent whitish with brown feather tips on the latter. Juveniles resemble adults with the addition of buff streaks and spots on their upperparts, wing bars made of orangey spots, and dark brown mottling on buffy orange underparts. Voice: The song of the cocoa thrush's nominate subspecies is "a long musical caroling with numerous slurred phrases, the whole gliding smoothly along within narrow ranges of pitches, pree-er, churry, churry, o-ee-e, lulu, o-E-er, cheer-er, we-e, wu-e, E-a-o-eeo, te-a, te-a, e-o-to-e, cheer-o, o-ee, urr, wu-EE-er, toe-ee-tu-tu, o-ee-o... and so on". That of T. f.

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White-chinned Thrush

Turdus aurantius

Medium82 gForest

The white-chinned thrush in 24–26.5 cm (9.4–10.4 in) in overall length. The sexes are similar in appearance. The face, crown and nape are black. The rest of the upperparts dark grey. Two small broad white edges to the innermost greater coverts form a small white wing patch. The chin is whitish but the rest of the underparts are mid-grey with the palest feathers on the belly. The bill, legs and feet are orange. The eye is brown. The only other thrush present in Jamaica is the white-eyed thrush. This lacks the white wing patch and the orange bill.

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