Grey-winged Blackbird

Turdus boulboul (Latham, 1790)

≈28 cmLength97 gWeight

The male has a black body, yellow bill and a large gray wing patch, while the female is plain brown.

Busiest months: February · Most records: India, China, Nepal

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Male is black overall with pale feather edges on the belly
Male has a large gray wing patch
Male has a bright yellow bill and a narrow yellow eye-ring

Male, female and young

Male has a black body, gray wing patch and bright yellow bill; female is plain brown, with a dull yellow to brown bill and a gray eye-ring.

Where and when it's recorded

Grey-winged Blackbird has been recorded at 224 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 10 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

SattalIndia853 records
PangotIndia518 records
Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia351 records

More places

Mt. Phulchowki - Lowest Few Miles of RoadNepal192 records
Baihualing [General Area]China178 records
Mt. PhulchowkiNepal144 records
Munsyari – Bheema WodeyarIndia125 records
Mahananda WLS – LatpancharIndia124 records
Forest Research Institute (FRI), New Forest CampusIndia108 records
Dochula – Royal Botanical ParkBhutan78 records

Countries and regions with the most records

India China Nepal Bhutan Thailand Pakistan Myanmar (Burma)Bangladesh

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 grey-winged blackbird (Turdus boulboul) is a species of Turdus in the thrush family, found at in the mountains of southern and eastern Asia from the Himalayas to northern Vietnam. Its natural habitat is in the middle altitudes of subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, mostly at 1,800–2,700 m (5,900–8,900 ft) altitude, but occasionally down to 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in winter, and as high as 3,300 m (10,800 ft) in summer.

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