Thrushes and Allies
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Turdidae
The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs. There are 335 species worldwide and 34 species which occur in India.
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Blue-capped Rock Thrush Monticola cinclorhynchus
- Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Pied Thrush Zoothera wardii
- Orange-headed Thrush Zoothera citrina
- Siberian Thrush Zoothera sibirica
- Plain-backed Thrush Zoothera mollissima
- Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni
- Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma
- Long-billed Thrush Zoothera monticola
- Dark-sided Thrush Zoothera marginata
- Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor
- Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis
- White-collared Blackbird Turdus albocinctus
- Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul
- Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula
- Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus (Elevated to species by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus
- White-backed Thrush Turdus kessleri
- Grey-sided Thrush Turdus feae
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
- Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis (Elevated to species by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Dusky Thrush Turdus euonomus (earlier included in Turdus naumanni - Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
- Redwing Turdus iliacus
- Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
- Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
- Rusty-bellied Shortwing Brachypteryx hyperythra
- Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus (=Brachypteryx stellatus)
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophrys
- White-browed Shortwing Brachypteryx montana
- White-bellied Shortwing or Nilgiri Blue Robin Myiomela major (earlier Brachypteryx major) (E) Split with genus revision by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- White-bellied Blue Robin Myiomela albiventris (earlier Brachypteryx major albiventris)
- Malabar Whistling Thrush Myophonus horsfieldii (E)
- Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea
- Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis
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