Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica), photo 1 — Photo: Mark Clarke · CC BY 4.0

Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica), photo 2 — Photo: Mark Clarke · CC BY 4.0

Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica), photo 3 — Photo: Damien O'Donnell · CC BY 4.0

Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica), photo 10 — Photo: Mark Clarke · CC BY 4.0

What the Grey Shrikethrush sounds like

Sonogram of the Grey Shrikethrush: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Yvonne Phillips · Call · Woondum National Park, Australia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Of medium size (about 24 cm or 9.4 in long) and lacking bright colours, the grey shrikethrush—usually just thrush in casual conversation—has an extraordinary gift for ringing melody, unmatched by any other Australasian species save perhaps the two lyrebirds and its northern relative, the sandstone shrikethrush.

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When to see the Grey Shrikethrush

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey Shrikethrush

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Australia Papua New Guinea Indonesia

About the Grey Shrikethrush

The grey shrikethrush or grey shrike-thrush, formerly commonly known as grey thrush, is a songbird of Australasia. It is moderately common to common in most parts of Australia, but absent from the driest of the inland deserts. It is also found in New Guinea.

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Easily confused with

Little ShrikethrushColluricincla megarhynchaThe little shrikethrush or little shrike-thrush is a species of passerine bird in the family Pachycephalidae that is found in New Guinea as well as in north and east Australia.

Bower's ShrikethrushColluricincla boweriBower's shrikethrush, also known as the stripe-breasted shrike-thrush, is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae.

Sandstone ShrikethrushColluricincla woodwardiThe sandstone shrikethrush is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae.

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