Naumann's Thrush - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Mikemik
Location: Beijing, China, November 2005

Turdus naumanni

Identification

• Greyish-brown back and crown with some rusty accents
• White belly
• Male: Rufous face, breast, rump, and spots on flanks and undertail coverts (breast is sometimes spotted instead of solid rufous), and often with some black spots on throat
• Female: similar to male but with paler rufous colors, never solid color on breast, more contrasting malar stripes
• Underwing almost entirely buffy-rufous

Distribution

Found in summer in northern Asia, mainly Siberia; winters to Japan, Korea, southern China and Myanmar. Generally, subspecies eunomus occurs more northerly then naumanni. Both forms have occurred as vagrants in Europe and Britain.

Taxonomy

Photo by lostinjapan
Photographed: Hiroshima City Center, Japan
This bird is a young female.

This is a monotypic species¹.

Dusky Thrush have recently been split from Naumann’s Thrush. Hybrids do occur and are not too rare around Beijing³.

Habitat

Breeds in coniferous and broad-leaf forest and scrub.

Behaviour

It nests in trees; 3-5 eggs are laid.

The diet includes insects, mosquitoes, earthworms and berries.

Voice is very similar to Dusky Thrush

References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Knox, A.G. et al. 2008. Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: Fifth report. Ibis, 150, 833–835
3. Thread in Id Forum; see especially posts 5 and 6
4. Beaman, M., S. Madge, K.M. Olsen. 1998. Fuglene i Europa, Nordafrika og Mellemøsten. Copenhagen, Denmark: Gads Forlag, ISBN 87-12-02276-4

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