Turdus ruficollis
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The red-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", black-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species. The scientific name comes from Latin. Turdus is "thrush" and the specific ruficollis is derived from rufus, "red", and collum, "neck".
The red-throated thrush is a migratory Palearctic species. It breeds in East Siberia to North Manchuria wintering to West China, Myanmar, and Northeast India. Its range overlaps with the more westerly-breeding black-throated thrush. It is a large thrush with a plain grey back and reddish underwings. The adult male has a red throat. Females and young birds lack the bib, but have black-streaked underparts. This bird species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
"BirdLife International Species factsheet: Turdus ruficollis". BirdLife International. Retrieved 21 November 2009. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-throated Thrush sighting in Ulaanbaatar on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 39th most-seen of the 63 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.
March and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-throated Thrush in Ulaanbaatar on a given day, against under 5% in June–July and November–February, the lowest months. Those are among Ulaanbaatar's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain a month against 70 mm in July.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-throated 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.
Among the best
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Red-throated Thrush sightings, Ulaanbaatar ranks 5th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Xining (China, about 10%), Lanzhou (China, about 10%) and Beijing (China, about 10%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Red-throated Thrush that you can see in Ulaanbaatar (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Eurasian Tree Sparrow (about 90%), Eurasian Magpie (about 90%) and Carrion Crow (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-throated Thrush is recorded against all the birds logged in Ulaanbaatar (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.
