Black-throated Thrush

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male is black from chin to breast
2. Gray upperparts and gray-black tail
3. Whitish underparts
4. Orange-red underwing coverts

Male, female and young

Female and juvenile are similar, but the black on the throat and breast is replaced by dark streaks.

Where and when it's recorded

Black-throated Thrush has been recorded at 344 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 31 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Khovd Bird Ringing Station, Khovd, MNMongolia284 records
2. [Dushanbe Botanical Garden]Tajikistan172 records
3. Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia168 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaNepalChinaMongoliaBhutanTajikistanUnited Arab EmiratesKyrgyzstan

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", red-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species.

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