Strange Bird from infrared camera, China (1 Viewer)

[xuky.summer]

The infrared camera we placed caught a strange bird with a blue tail and a black head. It looks like a juv bird. In the short video, it can be seen that it is walking rather than jumping. According to the plumage and body size, this is not an Azure winged Magpie.
900m above sea level, Qingdao, Shandong Province, September 27, 2022 Add two Oriental Turtle Doves for body size comparison
What do you think it is? Thank you very much!
xuky

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Looks like a thrush - maybe Pale Thrush?

 

[xuky.summer]

We considered the Pale Thrush, but it lack blue tail and black head? If you play the video frame by frame, you can see that its head is really black

 

[deanman]

Think Azure-winged Magpie Juv.

 

[xuky.summer]

The juv Azure-winged Magpie should have blue wing and longer tail and also same size as Oriental Turtle Dove

 

[johnallcock]

I agree it looks like a thrush, based on structure and behaviour. It looks like a juvenile moulting into adult plumage, with spotted juvenile plumage on the head, but also feathers missing on the head so it shows blacker feather bases. I don't think the tail is blue, I think that's a slight illusion from the nature of the photo.

I'm not sure which species, it may be easier to tell by the species that breed locally. But the body pattern does look like a Pale Thrush to me.

 

[DMW]

The only other possibility I can think of with vaguely similar plumage is a very dull Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, but I think it looks more like Pale Thrush.

 

[xuky.summer]

OK, Thank you.
The camera only caught some gray-backed thrushes and Pale Thrushes. Here is another juv Pale Thrush which does not show blue tail and black head.

 

[xuky.summer]

Another thrush question.
Can't orange color show in the camera in night? It seems that there is no color contrast between its flanks and belly. So it's a Gray-backed thrush?