Turdus pelios
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The African thrush or West African thrush (Turdus pelios) is a passerine bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is common in well-wooded areas over much of the western part of sub-Saharan Africa, it was once considered to be conspecific with the olive thrush but that species has now been split further. Populations are resident (non-migratory).
The African Thrush has dark olive-grey upperparts. The underparts show a whitish evenly brown- streaked side throat, the breast is greyish brown and the flanks are pale buff-orange with this colour not extending on to the lower breast, the belly and vent are white. It has a yellow-orange bill. It weighs 46–78 g (1.6–2.8 oz) and measures 21–23 cm (8.3–9.1 in) in length.
The song of the African thrush is a sustained, clear warbling made up of different phrases repeated rather randomly in a sequence. Also a high-pitched squealing flight call. The African thrush is distributed from Senegal and Gambia in the west to South Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia and Eritrea south to northwestern Zambia and western Angola.
The African thrush can be found in all sorts of wooded habitats including forest... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 2 | Akagera National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Semuliki National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 4 | Lake Mburo National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 5 | Volcanoes National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 6 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 7 | Lake Nakuru National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 8 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 9 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 10 | Virunga National Park | 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 11 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 12 | Niokolo-Koba National Park | 🇸🇳 Senegal | |
| 13 | Bale Mountains National Park | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 14 | Kidepo Valley National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abuja | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 2 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 3 | Brazzaville | 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo | |
| 4 | Kampala | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 5 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana | |
| 6 | Yaoundé | 🇨🇲 Cameroon | |
| 7 | Bujumbura | 🇧🇮 Burundi | |
| 8 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 9 | Maiduguri | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 10 | Lagos | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report an African Thrush sighting in Maiduguri on a given day, based on 58 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 19th most-seen of the 65 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and August
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report an African Thrush in Maiduguri on a given day, against about 30% in March–April, October and December, the lowest months. Those are among Maiduguri's wettest months, with about 90 mm of rain a month against almost none in January. November has too few records to rate.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most African 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.
9th of 17
Of the 17 cities where we can rate African Thrush sightings, Maiduguri ranks 9th at about 50%. The best odds are in Abuja (Nigeria, about 90%), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso, about 80%) and Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo, about 70%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the African Thrush that you can see in Maiduguri (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Greater Blue-eared Starling (about 90%), Common Bulbul (about 80%) and Long-tailed Glossy Starling (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the African Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Maiduguri (58 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.
