Turdus atrogularis
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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. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species.
The black-throated thrush is a migratory Eastern Palearctic species. Its range overlaps with the more easterly-breeding red-throated thrush. This is a large and distinctive thrush. The male has black from the chin to the breast with a greyish black tail. The upperparts are grey and the underparts are whitish with orange-red underwing coverts. Females and immatures are similar but the black on the throat and breast is replaced with dusky streaking.
Black-throated thrushes breed along the edges of clearings in coniferous or mixed deciduous forest, often in the undergrowth of Siberian Pine Pinus sibirica or mixed spruce fir forest, especially along watercourses or in swampy areas.
Black-throated thrushes breed solitarily or in loose aggregations of pairs in late May through to late July. The nest is made of grasses and thin twigs bound with earth and lined... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Langtang National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 2 | Manas National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 5 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Black-throated Thrush sighting in Beijing on a given day, based on 128 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 163rd most-seen of the 324 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-throated Thrush in Beijing on a given day, against under 5% in January to November, the lowest months. That is one of Beijing's driest months, with almost no rain against 150 mm in July.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-throated Thrush sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
12th of 15
Of the 15 cities where we can rate Black-throated Thrush sightings, Beijing ranks 12th at under 5%. The best odds are in Dushanbe (Tajikistan, about 30%), Tashkent (Uzbekistan, about 30%) and Almaty (Kazakhstan, about 20%).
Same genus: Turdus
The closest relatives of the Black-throated Thrush that you can see in Beijing (genus Turdus, Typical Thrushes) are Chinese Blackbird (about 60%), Naumann's Thrush (about 20%) and Red-throated Thrush (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-throated Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Beijing (128 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
