Red-throated Thrush

What the Red-throated Thrush sounds like

Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Call · Khurkh Bird Ringing Station, Биндэр, Хэнтий, Mongolia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Call, flight call · Ögiy, O'giinuur, Arkhangai, Mongolia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Red-throated Thrush

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 Red-throated Thrush

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 5 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 United Kingdom, France, Finland, Japan, Kazakhstan.

About the Red-throated Thrush

The red-throated thrush is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", black-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species. The scientific name comes from Latin. Turdus is "thrush" and the specific ruficollis is derived from rufus, "red", and collum, "neck".

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

Easily confused with

Chestnut ThrushTurdus rubrocanusThe chestnut thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. Black ThrushTurdus infuscatusThe black thrush is 22 to 23 cm (8.7 to 9.1 in) long and weighs about 60 to 90 g (2.1 to 3.2 oz). Black-breasted ThrushTurdus dissimilisThe black-breasted thrush is 22 centimetres (8.7 in) to 23.5 centimetres (9.3 in) long in total, including its tail.