White-throated Rock Thrush

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a single small, inconspicuous white throat patch
2. Male has chestnut-orange on the remaining underparts
3. Male is mainly cobalt-blue and chestnut
4. Female has conspicuous scaling on the underparts

Male, female and young

Male is cobalt-blue and chestnut; female is gray-brown, white, and black; young male has gray or golden-rufous feathers and orange underparts.

Voice

Song is flutelike and melancholy, with long, rising whistles.

Where and when it's recorded

White-throated Rock Thrush has been recorded at 256 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Angkor WatCambodia343 records
2. Deo Nui San passVietnam263 records
3. Khao Yai NPThailand152 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaCambodiaVietnamThailandSingaporeSouth KoreaJapanMalaysia

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 white-throated rock thrush (Monticola gularis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae of the order Passeriformes.

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