The Zoochat Photographic Guide To The Muscicapoidea (Part II) - Thrushes, Starlings and Allies

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This thread will comprise a continuation of the project started in the preceding thread to produce a photographic guide for the various families which are currently held to comprise a monophyletic Muscicapoidea.

As the first part of this guide has already covered the Old World flycatchers and chats, this second part will cover the remaining groups; thrushes, starlings, dippers, oxpeckers and mockingbirds. As the first group is by far the most speciose within the Muscicapoidea, this division will actually result in the two threads being of more-or-less equal length and assist in ease of reference. The master index for the guide as a whole will remain in the first thread, but a duplicate index will follow nonetheless to prevent interested parties from having to reference that thread to locate a given family. If I eventually merge the two threads, the duplicate index will be deleted.

The taxonomy used will be that put forward in HBW, but as ever I hope any differing opinions or rival taxonomies may result in fruitful discussion :)
 
MUSCICAPOIDEA



This clade comprises six extant families, as follows:

MUSCICAPIDAE - Old World Flycatchers and Chats (56 genera, 335 species)

TURDIDAE - Thrushes (20 genera, 176 species)

CINCLIDAE - Dippers (1 genus, 5 species)

BUPHAGIDAE - Oxpeckers (1 genus, 2 species)

MIMIDAE - Mockingbirds and Thrashers (10 genera, 34 species)

STURNIDAE - Starlings (33 genera, 123 species)

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TURDIDAE


This family comprises 20 extant genera, as follows:

Sialia - Bluebirds (3 species)

Grandala - Grandala (monotypic)

Neocossyphus - Ant-thrushes (2 species)

Stizorhina - Flycatcher-thrushes (2 species)

Myadestes - Cuban Solitaire and allies (11 extant species)

Geomalia - Geomalia (monotypic)

Zoothera - White's Thrush and allies (18 species)

Ixoreus - Varied Thrush (monotypic)

Entomodestes - Black Solitaire and White-eared Solitaire (2 species)

Cichlopsis - Peruvian Solitaire and allies (4 species)

Ridgwayia - Aztec Thrush (monotypic)

Hylocichla - Wood Thrush (monotypic)

Catharus - Veery and allies (13 species)

Chlamydochaera - Fruithunter (monotypic)

Cochoa - Cochoas (4 species)

Geokichla - Siberian Thrush and allies (21 species)

Otocichla - Chinese Thrush (monotypic)

Psophocichla - Ethiopian Thrush and Groundscraper Thrush (2 species)

Turdus - True Thrushes (86 species)

Cataponera - Sulawesi Thrush (monotypic)

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Sialia


Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)

The range of this species extends across much of the western United States and south into northern and central Mexico, with populations extending north into southwest Canada in the summer months.

Six subspecies recognised:

S. m. occidentalis - photo by @Ituri

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S. m. bairdi
S. m. jacoti
S. m. amabilis
S. m. nelsoni
S. m. mexicana


Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)

The range of this species extends across much of central and southeast United States, from New Jersey in the northeast to Oklahoma in the southwest, and south through Mexico into Central America as far as northern Nicaragua; populations extend north of this range in the summer throughout north-central and northeast United States into southern Canada.

Eight subspecies recognised:

S. s. sialis - photo by @Ituri

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S. s. fulva
S. s. grata
S. s. bermudensis
S. s. nidificans
S. s. guatemalae
S. s. meridionalis
S. s. caribaea


Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)

The resident range of this species extends throughout the United States west of the Rocky Mountains, with summer breeding populations extending north throughout western and central Canada into Alaska; wintering populations extend to the south into south-central United States and central Mexico.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Ituri

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Grandala


Grandala (Grandala coelicolor)

The range of this species extends throughout the Himalayas from Kashmir in the west to northeast India and Bhutan in the east, and north into the Tibetan Plateau and central China; wintering populations extend to the south into northern Myanmar.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias

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Neocossyphus


Red-tailed Ant-thrush (Neocossyphus rufus)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations; a population extending throughout the Congo Basin from south-central Cameroon and Gabon in the west to western Uganda in the east; and a population extending through coastal East Africa from southernmost Somalia to southeast Tanzania.

Two subspecies recognised:

N. r. gabunensis
N. r. rufus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-tailed Ant-thrush (Neocossyphus poensis)

The range of this species extends throughout West Africa and the Congo Basin, from southwest Guinea and Sierra Leone in the west to northwest Tanzania and western Uganda in the east.

Two subspecies recognised:

N. p. poensis
N. p. praepectoralis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Stizorhina


Rufous Flycatcher-thrush (Stizorhina fraseri)

The range of this species extends throughout Central Africa, from southeast Nigeria in the north to northwest Angola in the south, and east as far as northeast DRC, southwest South Sudan and south-central Uganda in the north, and northwest Zambia in the south.

Three subspecies recognised:

S. f. fraseri
S. f. rubicunda
S. f. vulpina

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush (Stizorhina finschi)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa from southwest Guinea and Sierra Leone to southern Nigeria.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Myadestes


Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)

The range of this species extends throughout western North America, from Alaska and northwest Canada in the north, south through western Canada and the USA west of the Rockies, into western and central Mexico; the northern reaches of this range, from Alaska to southwest Canada, comprise summer breeding populations.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. t. townsendi - photo by @Ituri

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M. t. calophonus


Olomao (Myadestes lanaiensis)

Endemic to Lanai and Molokai in the Hawaiian archipelago; the former population was extirpated in the 1930's, and the latter population may also now be extinct having been last reported in 1994.

One extant subspecies (M. l. rutha) recognised; the nominate race has been extinct since the 1930s. No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Omao (Myadestes obscurus)

Endemic to the Big Island in the Hawaiian archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Puaiohi (Myadestes palmeri)

Endemic to Kauai in the Hawaiian archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Cuban Solitaire (Myadestes elisabeth)

The range of this species is restricted to westernmost and easternmost Cuba; a race recorded from the Isle of Pines has been extirpated.

One extant subspecies - the nominate - recognised; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-throated Solitaire (Myadestes genibarbis)

The range of this species extends from Jamaica into Hispaniola, and throughout the Lesser Antilles.

Six subspecies recognised:

M. g. solitarius
M. g. montanus
M. g. dominicanus
M. g. genibarbis
M. g. sanctaeluciae
M. g. sibilans

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown-backed Solitaire (Myadestes occidentalis)

The range of this species extends throughout western and central Mexico, and into Central America as far south as El Salvador and Honduras.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. o. occidentalis
M. o. insularis
M. o. oberholseri

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Slate-colored Solitaire (Myadestes unicolor)

The range of this species extends from southern Mexico into Central America, as far south as northwest Nicaragua.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-faced Solitaire (Myadestes melanops)

The range of this species extends throughout Costa Rica and into western Panama.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Varied Solitaire (Myadestes coloratus)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout eastern Panama and adjacent northwest Colombia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Andean Solitaire (Myadestes ralloides)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the northern Andes, from Venezuela in the north, through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru into west-central Bolivia in the south.

Four subspecies recognised:

M. r. plumbeiceps
M. r. candelae
M. r. venezuelensis
M. r. ralloides

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Geomalia


Geomalia (Geomalia heinrichi)

Endemic to the mountains of Sulawesi.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Zoothera


Long-tailed Thrush (Zoothera dixoni)

The range of this species extends from northern India, through the central and eastern Himalayas of Nepal, northeast India and Bhutan, into northeast Myanmar and south-central China; wintering populations are patchily present to the south into north-central Indochina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Alpine Thrush (Zoothera mollissima)

The range of this species extends from northern Pakistan in the west, throughout the Himalayas, to adjacent portions of southern China in the east; wintering populations extend into the southern foothills of the Himalayas and southernmost China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sichuan Forest Thrush (Zoothera griseiceps)

The summer breeding range of this species is restricted to the alpine forests of central and north-central Sichuan in central China; the wintering range of the species is unclear but may extend through northern Indochina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Himalayan Forest Thrush (Zoothera salimalii)

The range of this species extends through the eastern Himalayas of northeast India and Bhutan, and into adjacent portions of southern China; wintering populations are patchily present in the southern foothills of the Himalayan range, northern India and northwest Indochina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Dark-sided Thrush (Zoothera marginata)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the central and eastern Himalayas, into southernmost China, and south from here throughout northern and eastern Indochina; wintering populations are present in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Assam.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Long-billed Thrush (Zoothera monticola)

The range of this species extends throughout the central and eastern Himalayas, from northeast India in the west, through Nepal, Bhutan and northeast India, to northern Myanmar and adjacent southern China in the east, and south from here throughout northern and western Myanmar; a disjunct population is present in northern Vietnam.

Two subspecies are recognised:

Z. m. monticola
Z. m. atrata

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Everett's Thrush (Zoothera everetti)

Endemic to the mountains of northern Borneo.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sunda Thrush (Zoothera andromedae)

The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and disjunct distribution throughout montane habitats of Sumatra, the Lesser Sundas and the Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White's Thrush (Zoothera aurea)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of north-central Asia, from the Urals of eastern European Russia and the northern reaches of the Tien Shan in Kazakhstan in the west, through southern and central Siberia and adjacent northern Mongolia, to the Russian Far East, northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan in the east; populations in southern Japan are resident. The wintering range of this species extends throughout southeast China, northeast Indochina and Luzon in the Philippines. Disjunct resident populations are present in Taiwan, southwest India and Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, and the western Lesser Sundas.

Six subspecies recognised:

Z. a. aurea
Z. a. toratugumi - photo by @devilfish

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Z. a. iriomotensis
Z. a. neilgherriensis
Z. a. imbricata
Z. a. horsfieldi


Amami Thrush (Zoothera major)

Endemic to Anami-Oshima in the northern Ryukyu Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Scaly Thrush (Zoothera dauma)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northwest Pakistan in the west, throughout the Himalayas and northern Myanmar, to south-central China in the east; resident populations extend south from here into northern and western Indochina. Wintering populations extend to the south throughout the breeding and resident range, from northern and central India in the west to eastern Indochina and southeast China in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant

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Fawn-breasted Thrush (Zoothera machiki)

Endemic to the Tanimbar Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Guadalcanal Thrush (Zoothera turipavae)

Endemic to the central montane forests of Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Makira Thrush (Zoothera margaretae)

Endemic to Makira in the southeast Solomon Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal eastern and southeastern Australia, from the southeast reaches of Cape York Peninsula in the north to southeast Victoria, Tasmania and the islands of the Bass Strait in the south, and west from here as far as Kangaroo Island.

Three subspecies recognised:

Z. l. cuneata
Z. l. lunulata - photo by @Hix

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Z. l. halmaturina


Russet-tailed Thrush (Zoothera heinei)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout eastern Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and south throughout eastern Australia as far as northeast New South Wales; a disjunct population exists on Choiseul in the Solomon Islands.

Four subspecies recognised:

Z. h. eichhorni
Z. h. papuensis
Z. h. choiseuli
Z. h. heinei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


New Britain Thrush (Zoothera talaseae)

Endemic to southern New Britain and Umboi Island in the Bismarck Archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bougainville Thrush (Zoothera atrigena)

Endemic to Bougainville Island in the northern Solomon Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Ixoreus


Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Alaska and western Canada, and south into northwest United States ; populations in southwest Canada and northwest United States are resident, and wintering populations extend south throughout the western coastline of the United States into northwest Baja California in northernmost Mexico.

Four subspecies recognised:

I. n. meruloides
I. n. naevius - photo by @Pleistohorse

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I. n. carlottae
I. n. godfreii - photo by @Ituri

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Entomodestes


Black Solitaire (Entomodestes coracinus)

The range of this species is restricted to the western slopes of the northern Andes from west-central Colombia to northwest Ecuador.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.



White-eared Solitaire (Entomodestes leucotis)

The range of this species extends throughout the eastern slopes of the central Andes, from northern Peru to central Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Cichlopsis


Chestnut-throated Solitaire (Cichlopsis chubbi)

The range of this species is restricted to a pair of disjunct populations on the western slope of the Andes in southwest Colombia and northwest Ecuador.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Peruvian Solitaire (Cichlopsis peruviana)

The range of this species is restricted to a handful of sites on the eastern slope of the Andes in central Peru.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Guianan Solitaire (Cichlopsis gularis)

The range of this species extends throughout the tepuis of the Guianan Highlands, from southwest Venezuela into Guyana and Suriname.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-brown Solitaire (Cichlopsis leucogenys)

The range of this species is restricted to a short stretch of the Atlantic coastal forests of eastern Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Ridgwayia


Aztec Thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola)

The range of this species extends throughout western Mexico, from southwest Chihuahua in the north to southeast Oaxaca in the south.

Two subspecies recognised:

R. p. maternalis
R. p. pinicola

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Hylocichla


Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout southeast Canada and the eastern United States, from southeast Ontario in the west to Nova Scotia in the east, and south to east Texas in the west and northern Florida in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout southeast Mexico and Central America as far south as the southernmost border of Panama.

Monotypic.

Photo by @vogelcommando

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Catharus


Swainson's Thrush (Catharus swainsoni)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from Alaska and northwest Canada south into the western and west-central United States, and in the north of this range across central and southeast Canada into the northeast United States; the wintering range of this species extends throughout the Andes and western South America, from northern Venezuela and Colombia in the north to north-central Argentina in the south.

Three subspecies recognised:

C. s. incanus
C. s. swainsoni - photo by @Ituri

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C. s. appalachiensis


Russet-backed Thrush (Catharus ustulatus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the Pacific coastline of North America, from southeast Alaska in the north, through the Pacific coast of Canada and the USA, as far as southwest California; the wintering range of this species extends throughout southern and western Mexico and into Central America as far south as Panama.

Three subspecies recognised:

C. u. ustulatus - photo by @Great Argus

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C. u. phillipsi - photo by @d1am0ndback

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C. u. oedicus


Veery (Catharus fuscescens)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout southern Canada and adjacent northern United States, in the west extending south through west-central USA as far as Colorado, and in the east extending south through northeast USA as far as Virginia and West Virginia; the wintering range of this species extends throughout central Brazil.

Four subspecies recognised:

C. f. salicicola
C. f. subpallidus - photo by @Ituri

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C. f. fuscescens - photo by @Vision

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C. f. fuliginosus


Grey-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northeast Siberia, across the Bering Strait to Alaska, and from here east throughout northern Canada as far as Newfoundland in the northeast; the wintering range of this species extends patchily through the Greater Antilles and south into northern South America east of the Andes, as far as northwest Brazil.

Two subspecies recognised:

C. m. aliciae
C. m. minimus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bicknell's Thrush (Catharus bicknelli)

The summer breeding range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution throughout southeast Canada and northeast USA; the wintering range extends from eastern Cuba into Hispaniola to the west and Jamaica to the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southern Alaska in the west, throughout northwest and central Canada, to southeast Canada and northeast USA in the east; in the west of this range, breeding populations extend south through western Canda into interior western USA as far as the Mexican border. Wintering populations are present along the Pacific coastline of North America from northwest USA to southwest Mexico, and east throughout Mexico and southern USA into southeast and eastern USA, as far north as Delaware. Populations in the overlap zones of northeast and southwest USA are resident.

Eight subspecies recognised:

C. g. guttatus - photo by @Great Argus

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C. g. nanus
C. g. slevini
C. g. sequoiensis
C. g. auduboni - photo by @Ituri

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C. g. polionotus
C. g. faxoni - photo by @Ituri

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C. g. crymophilus


Russet Nightingale-thrush (Catharus occidentalis)

The range of this species extends throughout Mexico from southeast Sonora to Oaxaca.

Four subspecies recognised:

C. o. olivascens
C. o. lambi
C. o. fulvescens
C. o. occidentalis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ruddy-capped Nightingale-thrush (Catharus frantzii)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout montane habitats of Central America from southern Mexico in the north to western Panama in the south.

Eight subspecies recognised:

C. f. omiltemensis
C. f. nelsoni
C. f. chiapensis
C. f. alticola
C. f. juancitonis
C. f. waldroni
C. f. frantzii
C. f. wetmorei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-billed Nightingale-thrush (Catharus gracilirostris)

The range of this species is restricted to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama.

Three subspecies recognised:

C. g. gracilirostris
C. g. accentor
C. g. bensoni

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris)

The range of this species extends from northwest Mexico in the north, throughout western and southern Mexico into Central America, and from here patchily throughout northern South America as far south as Trinidad, Venezuela and the Andes of central Colombia.

Eleven subspecies recognised:

C. a. clarus
C. a. melpomene
C. a. costaricensis
C. a. griseiceps
C. a. phaeopleurus
C. a. sierrae
C. a. aurantiirostris
C. a. barbarito
C. a. birchalli
C. a. inornatus
C. a. insignis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-headed Nightingale-thrush (Catharus mexicanus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout montane regions of Mexico and Central America, from east-central Mexico in the north to western Panama in the south.

Four subspecies recognised:

C. m. mexicanus
C. m. cantator
C. m. yaegeri
C. m. carrikeri

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Spotted Nightingale-thrush (Catharus dryas)

The range of this species extends from southern Mexico in the north, through Central America into northern South America, and from here south throughout the Andes as far as northernmost Argentina.

Four subspecies recognised:

C. d. ovandensis
C. d. dryas
C. d. maculatus
C. d. blakei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Slaty-backed Nightingale-thrush (Catharus fuscater)

The range of this species extends from Costa Rica and Panama in the north, throughout northern Colombia and Venezuela into the montane forests of the Andes as far south as central Bolivia.

Seven subspecies recognised:

C. f. hellmayri
C. f. mirabilis
C. f. fuscater
C. f. sanctaemartae
C. f. opertaneus
C. f. caniceps
C. f. mentalis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Chlamydochaera


Fruithunter (Chlamydochaera jefferyi)

Endemic to the montane forests of Borneo.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias

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Cochoa


Purple Cochoa (Cochoa purpurea)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the central and eastern Himalayas from northern India in the west, through Nepal and Bhutan, to northeast India and adjacent southern China in the east, and from here throughout south-central China and northern Indochina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Green Cochoa (Cochoa viridis)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout the eastern Himalayas of northeast India and northern Myanmar, and from here south throughout Indochina; a disjunct population exists in eastern China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Sumatran Cochoa (Cochoa beccarii)

Endemic to the mountains of Sumatra.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Javan Cochoa (Cochoa azurea)

Endemic to the mountains of west and central Java.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Geokichla


Siberian Thrush (Geokichla sibirica)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout central and eastern Siberia, south into northern Mongolia and northeast China, and east into the Russian Far East, Sakhalin and Japan; the wintering range of this species extends from southeast China into eastern Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas.

Two subspecies recognised:

G. s. sibirica - photo by @ThylacineAlive

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G. s. davisoni


Pied Thrush (Geokichla wardii)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the central Himalayas of northern India and Nepal, with wintering populations restricted to Sri Lanka.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Spotted Ground-thrush (Geokichla guttata)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa in a highly-fragmented distribution of several localised and disjunct populations, primarily in southern South Sudan, southern DRC, Malawi and southeast South Africa.

Five subspecies recognised:

G. g. maxis
G. g. lippensi
G. g. fischeri
G. g. belcheri
G. g. guttata

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Spot-winged Thrush (Geokichla spiloptera)

Endemic to central and southern Sri Lanka.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias

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Orange-headed Thrush (Geokichla citrina)

The range of this species extends across much of southern and southeast Asia, from the Himalayas of northern Pakistan in the west to east-central China in the east, and south into Peninsular India and Indochina, and patchily into the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Greater Sundas; populations across much of northeast India, Bangladesh and northwest Myanmar are winter visitors, as are populations in Peninsular Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

Eleven subspecies recognised:

G. c. citrina
G. c. cyanota - photo by @Writhedhornbill

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G. c. gibsonhilli - photo by @Chlidonias

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G. c. innotata - photo by @LaughingDove

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G. c. melli - photo by @ro6ca66

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G. c. courtoisi
G. c. aurimacula
G. c. andamanensis
G. c. albogularis
G. c. aurata
G. c. rubecula


Ashy Thrush (Geokichla cinerea)

Endemic to northern and central Luzon and Mindoro in the northern Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Red-backed Thrush (Geokichla erythronota)

Endemic to Sulawesi and surrounding offshore islands.

Two subspecies recognised:

G. e. erythronota
G. e. kabaena

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Red-and-Black Thrush (Geokichla mendeni)

The range of this species is restricted to Peleng in the Banggai Archipelago and Taliabu in the Sula Archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Slaty-backed Thrush (Geokichla schistacea)

Endemic to the Tanimbar Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Orange-banded Thrush (Geokichla peronii)

The range of this species extends throughout Timor and surrounding islands of the eastern Lesser Sundas.

Two subspecies recognised:

G. p. peronii
G. p. audacis

Photo by @vogelcommando

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Chestnut-backed Thrush (Geokichla dohertyi)

The range of this species extends throughout the Lesser Sundas from Lombok in the west to Timor in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66

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Chestnut-capped Thrush (Geokichla interpres)

The range of this species extends throughout Peninsular Malaysia, and south into Borneo, Java, the southern Phillipines and the Lesser Sundas as far east as Flores.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Writhedhornbill

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Enggano Thrush (Geokichla leucolaema)

Endemic to Enggano Island, off the southwest coast of Sumatra.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Buru Thrush (Geokichla dumasi)

Endemic to Buru in the southern Moluccas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Seram Thrush (Geokichla joiceyi)

Endemic to Seram in the southern Moluccas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Orange Ground-thrush (Geokichla gurneyi)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout eastern Africa from south-central Kenya in the north to southeast South Africa in the south, with disjunct populations in southern DRC and western Angola.

Five subspecies recognised:

G. g. chuka
G. g. raineyi
G. g. otomitra
G. g. disruptans
G. g. gurneyi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Oberländer's Ground-thrush (Geokichla oberlaenderi)

The range of this species is restricted to northeast DRC and adjacent portions of southwest Uganda.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Crossley's Ground-thrush (Geokichla crossleyi)

The range of this species represents a patchy distribution of disjunct populations in southeast Nigeria and adjacent Cameroon, southern Congo and northeast DRC.

Two subspecies recognised:

G. c. crossleyi
G. c. pilettei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Abyssinian Ground-thrush (Geokichla piaggiae)

The range of this species extends patchily across much of East Africa, from northern and western Ethiopia in the north, to the Albertine Rift of eastern DRC, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi in the south.

Six subspecies recognised:

G. p. tanganjicae
G. p. hadii
G. p. piaggiae
G. p. ruwenzorii
G. p. kilimensis
G. p. rowei

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-eared Ground-thrush (Geokichla camaronensis)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout central Africa in a fragmented and disjunct distribution; from central and southwest Cameroon in the north to the extreme coastal southwest of the DRC in the south; and from northeast DRC to west-central Uganda.

Three subspecies recognised:

G. c. camaronensis
G. c. graueri
G. c. kibalensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Grey Ground-thrush (Geokichla princei)

The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution across coastal West Africa and Central Africa, from eastern Sierra Leone and Liberia in the west to northern Gabon and southwest Cameroon in the east, with a disjunct population extending from northeast DRC into western Uganda.

G. p. princei
G. p. batesi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Otocichla


Chinese Thrush (Otocichla mupinensis)

The range of this species extends throughout east-central and southern China from Hebei and western Gansu in the north to Yunnan in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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