Eyebrowed Thrush

How to identify

Field marks

1. White supercilium around the eye
2. Orange breast and flanks, white belly
3. Gray-brown back, head and neck
4. Yellow bill with a black tip

Male, female and young

Sexes look broadly similar; juvenile has a rufous-brown back.

Voice

Call is thin, like “zip-zip”, lengthening to a drawn-out “tseep” for contact; male’s song is a simple whistle.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: May · Most records: China, Thailand, Japan

Eyebrowed Thrush has been recorded at 778 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 32 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. St. Paul IslandUnited States464 records
2. Doi Inthanon NP – summitThailand425 records
3. Nanhui DongtanChina355 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaThailandJapanPhilippinesUnited StatesMalaysiaSingaporeSouth Korea

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 eyebrowed thrush (Turdus obscurus) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in dense coniferous forest and taiga eastwards from Siberia and Mongolia to Japan. It is strongly migratory, wintering south to China and Southeast Asia.

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