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 36 species which occur in China. China has the greatest diversity of thrushes of any country on earth.
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- White-throated Rock Thrush Monticola gularis
- Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush Monticola rufiventris
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Blue Whistling-Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
- Orange-headed Thrush Zoothera citrina
- Siberian Thrush Zoothera sibirica
- Plain-backed Thrush Zoothera mollissima
- Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni
- Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma
- Dark-sided Thrush Zoothera marginata
- Gray-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
- Tickell's Thrush Turdus unicolor
- Black-breasted Thrush Turdus dissimilis
- Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
- White-collared Blackbird Turdus albocinctus
- Gray-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul
- Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula
- Island Thrush Turdus poliocephalus
- Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus
- White-backed Thrush Turdus kessleri
- Gray-sided Thrush Turdus feae
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Pale Thrush Turdus pallidus
- Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
- Dark-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis
- Dusky Thrush Turdus naumanni
- Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
- Redwing Turdus iliacus
- Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
- Chinese Thrush Turdus mupinensis
- Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
- Rusty-bellied Shortwing Brachypteryx hyperythra
- Gould's Shortwing Brachypteryx stellata
- Lesser Shortwing Brachypteryx leucophrys
- White-browed Shortwing Brachypteryx montana
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of China
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