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Photo by Neil
Hong Kong, China, November 2006

Alternative name: Eastern Blackbird

Turdus mandarinus

Identification

Distribution

West and southwest China.

Taxonomy

Two subspecies recognized:

  • T. m. sowerbyi: East-central China (Sichuan)
  • T. m. mandarinus: Breeds eastern China (from southern Gansu and southern Shaanxi south through eastern Sichuan to western Yunnan, east to Hebei and Guangdong); partially migratory, wintering to Hainan and northern Indochina

Formerly considered conspecific with Eurasian Blackbird.

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

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