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It resembles simillimus and intergrades with it in the Palni Hills, [4] but the male is uniform slate brown. [2] Kinnis' blackbird (T. s. kinnisii), named for John Kinnis, medical superintendent to the British military forces in Ceylon, is endemic to montane forests of Sri Lanka. Main breeding season is known to starts March to April and ...
Turdus menachensis Ogilvie-Grant, 1913: 108 Taiwan thrush: Turdus niveiceps (Hellmayr, 1919) 109 Grey-winged blackbird: Turdus boulboul (Latham, 1790) 110 Indian blackbird: Turdus simillimus Jerdon, 1839: 111 Tickell's thrush: Turdus unicolor Tickell, 1833: 112 Black-breasted thrush: Turdus dissimilis Blyth, 1847: 113 Japanese thrush: Turdus ...
The common blackbird (Turdus merula) is a species of true thrush. It is also called the Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds ), [ 2 ] or simply the blackbird where this does not lead to confusion with a similar-looking local species.
Turdus is a genus of medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for 'thrush'. Most of the species are called thrushes ; the term thrush is also used for many other birds in the family Turdidae, as well as for a few species belonging to other families.
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The black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", red-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. [2] More recent treatments regard the two as separate species. [3]
The Ethiopian thrush (Turdus simensis) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Taxonomy
Nearly 90 species of medium to large thrushes are in the genus Turdus, characterised by rounded heads, longish, pointed wings, and usually melodious songs.Although two European thrushes, the song thrush and mistle thrush, are early offshoots from the Eurasian lineage of Turdus thrushes after they spread north from Africa, the fieldfare is descended from ancestors that had colonised the ...