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Encyclopedia > True thrush
True Thrushes

Blackbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genera

Turdus

The true thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the thrush family Turdidae.


Most, but not all, are Old World species; several of the New World species are called Robins rather than Thrushes:


Species are:

  • Blackbird, Turdus merula
  • Yemen Thrush, Turdus menachensis
  • Olive Thrush, Turdus olivaceus
  • Olivaceous Thrush, Turdus olivaceofuscus
  • Comoro Thrush, Turdus bewsheri
  • Kurrichane Thrush, Turdus libonyanus
  • African Thrush, Turdus pelios
  • African Bare-eyed Thrush, Turdus tephronotus
  • Gray-backed Thrush, Turdus hortulorum
  • Tickell's Thrush, Turdus unicolor
  • Black-breasted Thrush, Turdus dissimilis
  • Japanese Thrush, Turdus cardis
  • White-collared Blackbird, Turdus albocinctus
  • Ring Ouzel, Turdus torquatus
  • Gray-winged Blackbird, Turdus boulboul
  • 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
  • Izu Thrush, Turdus celaenops
  • Dark-throated Thrush, Turdus atrogularis
    • Black-throated Thrush, T. a. atrogularis
    • Red-throated Thrush, T. a. ruficollis
  • Dusky Thrush, Turdus naumanni
    • Naumann's Thrush, T. n. naumanni
    • Dusky Thrush, T. n. eunomus
  • Fieldfare, Turdus pilaris
  • Redwing, Turdus iliacus
  • Song Thrush, Turdus philomelos
  • Chinese Thrush, Turdus mupinensis
  • Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorus
  • Red-legged Thrush, Turdus plumbeus
  • Chiguanco Thrush, Turdus chiguanco
  • Sooty Robin, Turdus nigrescens
  • Great Thrush, Turdus fuscater
  • Black Robin, Turdus infuscatus
  • Glossy-black Thrush, Turdus serranus
  • Andean Slaty Thrush, Turdus nigriceps
  • Eastern Slaty Thrush, Turdus subalaris
  • Black-hooded Thrush, Turdus olivater
  • Plumbeous-backed Thrush, Turdus reevei
  • Maranon Thrush, Turdus maranonicus
  • Chestnut-bellied Thrush, Turdus fulviventris
  • Rufous-bellied Thrush, Turdus rufiventris
  • Austral Thrush, Turdus falcklandii
  • Pale-breasted Thrush, Turdus leucomelas
  • Creamy-bellied Thrush, Turdus amaurochalinus
  • Mountain Robin, Turdus plebejus
  • Black-billed Thrush, Turdus ignobilis
  • Lawrence's Thrush, Turdus lawrencii
  • Cocoa Thrush, Turdus fumigatus
  • Pale-vented Thrush, Turdus obsoletus
  • Hauxwell's Thrush, Turdus hauxwelli
  • Clay-colored Robin, Turdus grayi
  • Bare-eyed Thrush, Turdus nudigenis
  • Ecuadorian Thrush, Turdus maculirostris
  • Unicolored Thrush, Turdus haplochrous
  • White-eyed Thrush, Turdus jamaicensis
  • White-throated Thrush, Turdus assimilis
  • White-necked Thrush, Turdus albicollis
  • Rufous-backed Robin, Turdus rufopalliatus
  • Rufous-collared Robin, Turdus rufitorques
  • American Robin, Turdus migratorius
  • La Selle Thrush, Turdus swalesi
  • White-chinned Thrush, Turdus aurantius

  Results from FactBites:
 
thrush - Search Results - MSN Encarta (175 words)
Thrush (bird), common name applied to any of a large family of widely distributed passerine birds.
Thrush (medicine), fungal infection characterized by creamy-white, curdlike patches on the tongue and other mucosal surfaces of the mouth.
- bird resembling true thrush: a bird that resembles a thrush, e.g.
Thrush (243 words)
Thrush is a fungal or bacterial infection that attacks the frog of the foot.
The fungus or bacteria exists in the clefts on either side of the frog, and horses with long toes and contracted heels tend to develop deep frog clefts and are particularly susceptible.
The prevailing symptom of thrush is the accumulation of a fl, foul-smelling, moist material.
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