Turdus pallidus
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The pale thrush (Turdus pallidus) is a passerine bird of the eastern Palearctic belonging to the genus Turdus in the thrush family Turdidae. It is closely related to the eye-browed thrush and grey-backed thrush. The pale thrush was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus pallidus. The scientific name comes from Latin Turdus meaning "thrush" and pallidus meaning "pallid" or "pale". Gmelin based his account on the "Pale thrush" that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his multi-volume work A General Synopsis of Birds. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
It is 23 cm long. The feet are pale pinkish-brown and the bill is grey above and yellow below. The male is brown above with a blue-grey head and throat. The underparts are pale brown, darker on the flanks and whitish on the belly and undertail-coverts. The flight feathers of the wing are dark grey and the underwing-coverts are grey or white. The tail is dark... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ueno Zoo | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 2 | Ueno Zoological Gardens (West Garden) | 🇯🇵 Japan |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pale Thrush sighting in Seoul on a given day, based on 545 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 64th most-seen of the 231 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pale Thrush in Seoul on a given day, against under 5% in May to October, the lowest months. That is one of Seoul's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 360 mm in July.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pale 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.
16th of 26
Of the 26 cities where we can rate Pale Thrush sightings, Seoul ranks 16th at about 10%. The best odds are in Fukuoka (Japan, about 40%), Shanghai (China, about 30%) and Fuzhou (China, about 20%).
Same genus: Turdus
The closest relatives of the Pale Thrush that you can see in Seoul (genus Turdus, Typical Thrushes) are Naumann's Thrush (about 20%), Grey-backed Thrush (about 20%) and Dusky Thrush (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pale Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Seoul (545 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.
