Turdus unicolor
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Tickell's thrush (Turdus unicolor) is a passerine bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is common in open forest in the Himalayas, and migrates seasonally into peninsular India, Nepal and rarely to Bangladesh. The name commemorates the British ornithologist Samuel Tickell who collected in India and Burma.
It is a small thrush, 21–25 cm (8.3–9.8 in) long and weighing 57–75 g (2.0–2.6 oz), similar in size to redwing or eyebrowed thrush and distinctly smaller than Indian blackbird. Males have uniform blue-grey upperparts, a whitish belly and vent, while females and young birds have browner upperparts. Adults have yellow beak and legs, while it may be darker in juveniles. There is a yellow eye-ring, which is thinner and fainter than in the Indian blackbird.
Tickell's thrush builds nests from April to June using mostly dry grass. It breeds at middle altitudes of 1,200–2,700 m (3,940–8,860 ft) (rarely up to 3,000 m (9,840 ft)) in the Himalayas, from extreme northeastern Afghanistan east through northern Pakistan, northwestern India and Nepal to Sikkim and western Bhutan. It migrates south and to lower altitudes... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Langtang National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 3 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Tickell's Thrush sighting in Gwalior on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 81st most-seen of the 86 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tickell's Thrush in Gwalior on a given day, against under 5% in March to December, the lowest months. Those are among Gwalior's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 210 mm in August.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tickell's Thrush sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Tickell's Thrush sightings, Gwalior ranks 3rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Srinagar (India, about 10%) and Jabalpur (India, about 10%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Tickell's Thrush that you can see in Gwalior (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Jungle Babbler (about 60%), Oriental Magpie-Robin (about 60%) and Purple Sunbird (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tickell's Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Gwalior (10 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.
