BIRDS of THE WORLD - An Online Bird Book
TURDIDAE
Order Passeriformes Family Turdidae
Thrushes are plump, soft-plumaged, small to medium-sized birds, inhabiting wooded areas, and often feed on the ground or eat small fruit. Most species are gray or brown in color, often with speckled underparts. Even if the adults do not have these speckles, the juveniles often will. They are insectivorous, but most species also eat worms, snails, and fruit. Thrushes build cup-shaped nests, sometimes lining them with mud. They lay two to five speckled eggs, sometimes laying two or more clutches per year. Both parents help in raising the young. The songs of some species are considered to be among the most beautiful in the avian world.
The thrushes are presented on the following web pages:
1) Geokichla and Zoothera 2) Bluebirds 3) Solitaires
4) Nigthingale-Thrushes 5) True thrushes (Turdus) 6) Miscellaneous
Geokichla, Zoothera
.The species in these two genus are sometimes combined into just the Zoothera genus.
Genus Cataponera - 1 species
Thrush,_Sulawesi Cataponera turdoides Found: Indonesia
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Adolf Meyer 2)
Francesco Veronesi
Genus Geokichla
Many of these species are consider part of Genus
Zoothera.
Thrush,_Abyssinian_Ground- Geokichla piaggiae Found: northeast Africa
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Mike_Barth 2)
Kevin O'Grady 3)
Dick Daniels 4)
Ken_Clifton
Thrush,_Ashy Geokichla cinerea Found: Philippines
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Doing Big Year
Thrush,_Black-eared_Ground- Geokichla camaronensis Found: Cameroon, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda
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Schmidt
Thrush,_Buru Geokichla dumasi Found: Buru, Indonesia
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Marcel_Holyoak
Thrush,_Chestnut-backed Geokichla dohertyi Found: Indonesia
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Bardrock - Edinburgh Zoo 2)
Chris and Angela Pye 3)
Josh_More
Thrush,_Chestnut-capped Geokichla interpres Found: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
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Nicolas Le Jeune 2)
Weng Liew - Malaysia
Thrush,_Crossley's_Ground- Geokichla crossleyi Found: Cameroon, Congo, Nigeria
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John_Gerrard_Keulemans
Thrush,_Enggano Geokichla leucolaema Found: Enggano Island in Indonesia
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1, 2) Filip Verbelen
Thrush,_Gray Ground- Geokichla princei Found: Africa
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John Gerrarde Keulemans 2)
Terese Hart
Thrush,_Kivu_Ground- Geokichla tanganjicae Found: DR Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
Thrush,_Oberlaender's_Ground- Geokichla oberlaenderi Found: DR Congo, Uganda
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Thrush,_Orange-banded also
Orange-sided Thrush Geokichla peronii Found: Timor island, southern Maluku Islands
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French Museum of Natural History 2)
James Eaton 3)
Dubi_Shapiro
Thrush,_Orange_Ground- Geokichla gurneyi Found:
Africa
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pjreddy 13 2)
Alan Manson
Thrush,_Orange-headed Geokichla citrina Found:
southeast Asia, Malaysia
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Charles Lam 2)
Adrian Pingstone - aviary 3)
JJ Harrison - Khao Yai National Park, Thailand 4)
Koshy_Koshy - India 5)
Andy Li
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5) Male
Thrush,_Pied Geokichla wardii Found: India, Sri Lanka
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John Gerrard Keulemans 2)
Koshy_Koshy 3)
Nagesh Kamath 4)
Arpit_Bansal
Thrush,_Red-and-black Geokichla mendeni Found: Indonesian islands of Taliabu and Peleng
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James_Eaton
Thrush,_Rusty-backed also
Red-backed Thrush Geokichla erythronota Found: Indonesia
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Unox 2)
Francesco Veronesi
Thrush,_Seram Geokichla joiceyi Found: island of Seram in Indonesia
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Pierre-Henri_Fabre
Thrush,_Siberian Geokichla sibirica Found: Asia, Indonesia
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Hiyashi Haka 2)
Matej Batha 3)
M Nishimura 4)
Lin_Sun_Fong - Taiwan
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Thrush,_Slaty-backed Geokichla schistacea Found: Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia
1)
Charles Davies
Thrush,_Spotted_Ground- Geokichla guttata Found: Africa
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Eric_Gropo 2)
Bob_Adams
Thrush,_Spot-winged Geokichla spiloptera Found: Sri Lanka
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David Cook - Sri Lanka 2)
Thimindu Goonatillake - Sri Lanka
Genus Neocossyphus
Found : Africa
Thrush,_Finsch's_Flycather Neocossyphus finschii Found: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
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John Gerrard Keulemans
1) Top: Rufous Flycatcher Thrush; Bottom: Finsch's Flycatcher Thrush 2)
Nik_Borrow
Thrush,_Red-tailed_Ant Neocossyphus rufus Found: Africa
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Tony Knight - Uganda
Thrush,_Rufous_Flycatcher Neocossyphus fraseri Found: Africa
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John Gerrard Keulemans 2, 3) Nik Borrow
1) Top: Rufous Flycatcher Thrush; Bottom: Finsch's Flycatcher Thrush
Thrush,_White-tailed_Ant Neocossyphus poensis Found: Africa
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Lee Hunter
Genus Zoothera
Geomalia Zoothera heinrichi also
Geomalia heinrichi Found: Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Tremarctos
Thrush,_Alpine Zoothera mollissima Found: India, China, southeast Asia
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Balaji Venkatesh. 2)
Kannan - India
Thrush,_Bassian also
Olive-tailed Thrush Zoothera lunulata Found: Australia
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Glen Fergus in the Gibraltar Range NP, New South Wales
2, 4) JJ
Harrison - Tasmania, Australia
3)
David Cook - Rocky Hall, NSW, Australia 5)
Tom Tarrant - Queensland
Thrush,_Dark-sided Zoothera marginata Found: Asia
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JJ Harrison - Thailand 2)
Graham Ekins - Thailand
Thrush,_Everett's Zoothera everetti Found: Borneo
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Rob_Hutchinson
Thrush,_Fawn-breasted Zoothera machiki Found: Indonesia
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Joseph Smit 2)
Dubi_Shapiro
Thrush,_Guadalcanal Zoothera turipavae Found: Solomon Islands
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Thrush,_Himalayan Zoothera salimalii Found: India, China, southeast Asia
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Craig_Brelsford - China
Thrush,_Long-billed Zoothera monticola Found:
Asia
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Umeshsrinivasan 2)
Ajit_Hota 3)
Shrikant_Rao - India
Thrush,_Long-tailed Zoothera dixoni Found: Asia
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Mark_Gurney 2)
Francesco_Veronesi
Thrush,_Makira also
San Cristobal Thrush Zoothera margaretae Found: Solomon Islands
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Thrush,_New_Britain Zoothera talaseae Found: New Britain, Umboi and Bougainville (Islands of New Guinea)
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Katerina_Tvardikova 2)
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Thrush,_Nilgiri Zoothera neilgherriensis Found: India
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Prashanth_Poojary
Thrush,_Russet-tailed Zoothera heinei Found: Australia, New Guinea
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1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova 3)
Tom_Tarrant
Thrush,_Scaly Zoothera dauma Found: It breeds in wet coniferous taiga, mainly in the Himalayas through Malaysia
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Jason_Thompson - Thailand 2)
JJ Harrison - Chiang Mai, Thailand 3)
Hiyashi Haka 4)
Shrikant_Rao - India
3)
Z. d. horsfieldi
Thrush,_Sri_Lanka Zoothera imbricata Found: Sri Lanka
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Thimindu Goonatillake
Thrush,_Sunda Zoothera andromedae Found: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines
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Lip_Kee
Thrush,_White's Zoothera aurea Found: mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia
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1, 2) Lin_Sun_Fong - Taiwan