Black-throated Thrush

Black-throated Thrush

Turdus atrogularis

Silhouette: Sharon Wegner-Larsen · PhyloPic

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Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
at Dushanbe

In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%

142 Verified sightings at Dushanbe
157 In all 5 parks From 2019 to 2026
February Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Black-throated Thrush

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 →

Sounds

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Nepal · 2012

© Marc Anderson · XC666431 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Alarm call0:22

Netherlands · 2021

© Peter de Rouw · XC614272 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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India · 2019

© Andrew Spencer · XC547778 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Langtang National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
<5%
2 Manas National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
3 Jim Corbett National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
4 Royal Manas National Park 🇧🇹 Bhutan
<5%
5 Chitwan National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Dushanbe 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
~30%
2 Tashkent 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
~30%
3 Almaty 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
~20%
4 Ürümqi 🇨🇳 China
~10%
5 Bishkek 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
~10%
6 Tehran 🇮🇷 Iran
~10%
7 Mashhad 🇮🇷 Iran
~10%
8 Yekaterinburg 🇷🇺 Russia
~10%
9 Kathmandu 🇳🇵 Nepal
<5%
10 Srinagar 🇮🇳 India
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Black-throated Thrush in Dushanbe?

Possible

About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Black-throated Thrush sighting in Dushanbe on a given day, based on 142 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 13th most-seen of the 96 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Black-throated Thrush in Dushanbe?

February and March

In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Black-throated Thrush in Dushanbe on a given day, against about 10% in April–June and August, the lowest months. Those are among Dushanbe's wettest months, with about 50 mm of rain a month against almost none in August.

What time of day is best to see a Black-throated Thrush?

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.

Is Dushanbe the best place to see a Black-throated Thrush?

Yes

Of the 15 cities where we can rate Black-throated Thrush sightings, Dushanbe has the highest daily chance: about 30%. Next come Tashkent (Uzbekistan, about 30%) and Almaty (Kazakhstan, about 20%).

Where does the Black-throated Thrush sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Black-throated Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Dushanbe (142 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.

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