TeaLovingDave

Turdus eunomus/ Dusky thrush at Shanghai Zoo

Taken from zooinstitutes.com with the permission of the owner, @alexkant and at his request
This bird really doesn't look like a (pure) dusky thrush at all - even juveniles of those would have a broad white supercilium, a black-streaked back, black spots on the flanks and an entirely rufous upperwing.

I think it might be a juvenile red- or black-throated thrush instead, but hybrids between those (and other similar species like Naumann's) are notoriously common, and identification from pictures of the back alone might not be 100% certainly possible... And I'm not familiar enough with Asian thrushes to be able to exclude other options. :p
 
@Vision

Well, you're more familiar with such things than I am :p or, it seems, alexkant.
 

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