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ForestCup nestMedium · 81 g
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The dark-sided thrush is 24 to 25 cm (9.4–9.8 in) in length and weighs around 80 g (2.8 oz). It has a particularly long blackish bill and the plumage is a contrasting dark brown head with rufous-brown wings. The face has a white loral stripe and a white eyering with a whitish throat and chin. The call is a series of monotone thin whistles.
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When to see the Dark-sided 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 Dark-sided Thrush
The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 1 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.
About the Dark-sided Thrush
The dark-sided thrush is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is also known as the lesser brown thrush, the long-billed ground-thrush, and the dark-sided ground-thrush. The species is monotypic and is closely related to a number of thrushes in the genus Zoothera, including the long-billed thrush and the widespread scaly thrush. It was described by Edward Blyth in 1847 based upon a specimen collected in Rakhine in Burma (Myanmar).
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Easily confused with
Long-tailed ThrushZoothera dixoniThe long-tailed thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.
Sri Lanka ThrushZoothera imbricataThe Sri Lanka thrush or Sri Lanka scaly thrush is a member of the thrush family Turdidae.
Everett's ThrushZoothera everettiEverett's thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.
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