Red-throated Thrush - BirdForum Opus

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Male Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
Photo by BIJ
Yeyahu NR, Beijing, China, March 2009

Identification

Bill black with yellow base on lower mandible (variable extent)
Brownish-grey back
Rufous underwing
Throat red
Female is spotted or streaked black on breast
Underside mostly with faint greyish spots
In fresh (fall) plumage, the more colorful parts (especially throat and sides of head) of both male and female can be covered by pale feather tips

Breeds in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, winters to India, China, and south east Asia. Vagrants reach the Western Palearctic, but not as commonly as Black-throated Thrush.

Female
Photo by BIJ
Yeyahu NR.,Beijing, China, February 2009

This is a monotypic species.

Red-throated Thrush has in the past included Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis) as a subspecies.

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