White-backed Thrush

When to see the White-backed Thrush

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-backed Thrush

The map shades 2 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, Nepal.

About the White-backed Thrush

The white-backed thrush or Kessler's thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is primarily resident or a short-distance altitudinal migrant, found in central China in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, eastern Tibet, and northwestern Yunnan, and also a scarce winter visitor in Bhutan, northeasternmost India, and eastern Nepal. It breeds in alpine scrub on rocky sites at altitudes of 3600–4500 metres, and descends down to 2100 metres, rarely to 1500 metres, in winter.

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Easily confused with

Grey-sided ThrushTurdus feaeThe grey-sided thrush is a medium-sized, warm-brown thrush with a white supercilium and crescent below the eye. Taiwan ThrushTurdus niveicepsThe male Taiwan thrush has black upperparts except for a white head and throat. Maranon ThrushTurdus maranonicusThe Maranon thrush is 21.5 to 23 cm (8.5 to 9.1 in) long.