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Tickell's Thrush

Turdus unicolor

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestMedium · 64 g
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 1
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 2
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 3
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 4
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 5
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 6
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 7
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 8
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 9
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0
Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor), photo 10
Photo: Mathieu Soetens · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

It is a small thrush, 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) long and weighing 57–75 g (2.0–2.6 oz), similar in size to redwing or eyebrowed thrush and distinctly smaller than Indian blackbird. Males have uniform blue-grey upperparts, a whitish belly and vent, while females and young birds have browner upperparts. Adults have yellow beak and legs, while it may be darker in juveniles. There is a yellow eye-ring, which is thinner and fainter than in the Indian blackbird.

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When to see the Tickell's Thrush

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tickell's Thrush

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 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.

India Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh Pakistan

Recorded as a rare visitor in Germany, China.

About the Tickell's Thrush

Tickell's thrush is a passerine bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is common in open forest in the Himalayas, and migrates seasonally into peninsular India, Nepal and rarely to Bangladesh.

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Easily confused with

White-collared Blackbird (Turdus albocinctus) White-collared BlackbirdTurdus albocinctusThe white-collared blackbird is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. Japanese Thrush (Turdus cardis) Japanese ThrushTurdus cardisThe Japanese thrush is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae. White-chinned Thrush (Turdus aurantius) White-chinned ThrushTurdus aurantiusThe white-chinned thrush in 24–26.5 cm (9.4–10.4 in) in overall length.

Side by side: Tickell's Thrush vs White-chinned Thrush · Hauxwell's Thrush vs Tickell's Thrush · Pale-eyed Thrush vs Tickell's Thrush

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