Red-throated Thrush

Turdus ruficollis Pallas, 1776

≈26 cmLength81 gWeight

It is a large thrush with a plain gray back and, in the male, a red throat.

Busiest months: December · Most records: China, Mongolia, Bhutan

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Male has a red throat
Plain gray back
Reddish wash on the underwing

Male, female and young

Females and juveniles lack the red throat patch but have black streaks on the underparts.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: December · Most records: China, Mongolia, Bhutan

Red-throated Thrush has been recorded at 364 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Lingshan Scenic AreaChina356 records
Beijing Botanical GardenChina221 records
Tsinghua UniversityChina113 records

More places

Mongolica Resort, UB, MNMongolia110 records
Temple of HeavenChina104 records
Jinshan – Jinshan Youth Activity CenterTaiwan (China)100 records
Khurkh Bird Ringing Station, Khentii, MNMongolia97 records
Olympic Forest Park NorthChina82 records
Olympic Forest Park SouthChina68 records
Gorkhi Terelj National Park, MNMongolia64 records

Countries and regions with the most records

China Mongolia Bhutan Nepal South Korea Philippines India Thailand

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

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Questions

How big is the Red-throated Thrush?

The Red-throated Thrush is about ≈26 cm long and weighs around 81 g.

Where does the Red-throated Thrush live?

Its breeding range: Palearctic: south-central Russia, northern Mongolia and northwestern China. It is most often recorded in China, Mongolia and Bhutan.