Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernOmnivore

ForestMedium · 62 g

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Tatsutomo Chin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Taiwan Thrush (Turdus niveiceps), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The male Taiwan thrush has black upperparts except for a white head and throat. The underparts are mainly dark orange with a blackish upper breast. The female has similar patterning but is duller, with a brown back, the head patterned brown and white and with a white supercilium, a buff throat, the upper breast streaked brown, and with duller orange underparts. Its bill, legs and feet are yellow. Males and females are similar in size, about 22 cm in length.

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When to see the Taiwan Thrush

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Taiwan Thrush

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

Taiwan Fiji Samoa Papua New Guinea

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia, Indonesia.

About the Taiwan Thrush

The Taiwan thrush is a bird in the thrush family, in the genus Turdus. It is endemic to Taiwan.

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Easily confused with

Maranon ThrushTurdus maranonicusThe Maranon thrush is 21.5 to 23 cm (8.5 to 9.1 in) long.

White-backed ThrushTurdus kessleriThe white-backed thrush or Kessler's thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.

White-eyed ThrushTurdus jamaicensisThe white-eyed thrush is 23 to 24 cm (9.1 to 9.4 in) long and weighs about 59 g (2.1 oz).

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