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Photo by Marc Guyt. Location: Sat Tal, India

Photo by Peter Ericsson. Location: Doi Angkhang, Thailand
Female

Turdus boulboul

[edit] Identification

Male

• Black plumage with pale greyish panel on greater secondary coverts and secondaries
• Orange bill
• Yellow eye-ring
• Yellow legs

Female

• Olive brown with a paler rufescent wing-panel
• Yellow bill

Sometimes males can have white wing-panels.

[edit] Distribution

Found in the Himalayas from N Pakistan to India, Nepal and Bhutan. Also in South China (Yunnan and Sichuan), northern Vietnam and Laos, mountains of Burma and northernmost Thailand.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Oak and rhododendron forest with thick ground vegetation, also tall conifer forests, clearings and dry scrub on open hillsides. Usually in thicker woods than similar White-collared Blackbird.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on invertebrates, snails, slugs, eartworms, also fruit and berries.
Shy and quick to take flight when disturbed. Hops on the ground in typical thrush fashion.
Breeds from March to August. The nest is a cup of grass, leaves, moss and lichens, placed in a fork of a tree, close to the trunk around 2 to 5 m above the ground. 3 to 4 eggs are laid.
Altitudinal migrant, found in the lowlands in winter, then sometimes in flocks associated with other thrushes.

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