Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata) | Photos and ID

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Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Eric Gropp, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Sunčana Bradley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 5 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Sunčana Bradley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Adrien Jailloux, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 8 — Photo: (c) martin ingemansson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Ryan van Huyssteen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spotted Ground Thrush (Geokichla guttata), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Jay Pruett, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

These birds are about 23 cm in length, with brown upper parts and white to off-white lower parts which are darkly spotted.

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When to see the Spotted Ground Thrush

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Spotted Ground Thrush

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 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.

South Africa Kenya Malawi Mozambique

Recorded as a rare visitor in Tanzania.

About the Spotted Ground Thrush

The spotted ground thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, and possibly Mozambique.

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Easily confused with

Pied ThrushGeokichla wardiiMales of this 22 cm (8.7 in) thrush are conspicuously black and white.

Abyssinian Ground ThrushGeokichla piaggiaeThe Abyssinian ground thrush is an attractive but rather secretive species.

Orange-sided ThrushGeokichla peroniiThe orange-sided thrush or orange-banded thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.

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