Turdidae
The Thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World.
They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs.
The taxonomic treatment of this large family has varied significantly in recent years. Traditionally it included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but now often either that group or the whole family is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
This article follows Handbook of Birds of the World with edits from Clement & Hathaway, Thrushes (2000), and retains the large thrushes in Turdidae.
- Family Turdidae
- Genus Turdus, true thrushes
- 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
- Grey-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
- Grey-winged Blackbird, Turdus boulboul
- Island Thrush, Turdus poliocephalus
- Chestnut Thrush, Turdus rubrocanus
- White-backed Thrush, Turdus kessleri
- Grey-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
- Genus Zoothera, Asian thrushes
- Slaty-backed Thrush, Zoothera schistacea
- Moluccan Thrush, Zoothera dumasi
- Chestnut-capped Thrush, Zoothera interpres
- Rusty-backed Thrush, Zoothera erythronota
- Chestnut-backed Thrush, Zoothera dohertyi
- Pied Thrush, Zoothera wardii
- Ashy Thrush, Zoothera cinerea
- Orange-banded Thrush, Zoothera peronii
- Orange-headed Thrush, Zoothera citrina
- Everett's Thrush, Zoothera everetti
- Siberian Thrush, Zoothera sibirica
- Varied Thrush, Zoothera naevia
- Aztec Thrush, Zoothera pinicola
- Abyssinian Ground Thrush, Zoothera piaggiae
- Kivu Ground Thrush, Zoothera tanganjicae
- Crossley's Ground Thrush, Zoothera crossleyi
- Orange Ground Thrush, Zoothera gurneyi
- Oberlaender's Ground Thrush, Zoothera oberlaenderi
- Black-eared Ground Thrush, Zoothera cameronensis
- Grey Ground Thrush, Zoothera princei
- Spotted Ground Thrush, Zoothera guttata
- Spot-winged Thrush, Zoothera spiloptera
- Sunda Thrush, Zoothera andromedae
- Plain-backed Thrush, Zoothera mollissima
- Long-tailed Thrush, Zoothera dixoni
- White's Thrush or Scaly Thrush, Zoothera dauma
- Amami Thrush, Zoothera major
- Horsfield's Thrush, Zoothera horsfieldi
- Fawn-breasted Thrush, Zoothera machiki
- Olive-tailed Thrush, Zoothera lunulata
- Russet-tailed Thrush, Zoothera heinei
- New Britain Thrush, Zoothera talaseae
- San Cristobal Thrush, Zoothera margaretae
- Guadalcanal Thrush, Zoothera turipavae
- Long-billed Thrush, Zoothera monticola
- Dark-sided Thrush, Zoothera marginata
- Bonin Islands Thrush, Zoothera terrestris (Extinct)
- Genus Catharus, American thrushes
- Veery, Catharus fuscescens
- Gray-cheeked Thrush, Catharus minimus
- Bicknell's Thrush, Catharus bicknelli
- Swainson's Thrush, Catharus ustulatus
- Hermit Thrush, Catharus guttatus
- Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush, Catharus aurantiirostris
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-thrush, Catharus fuscater
- Russet Nightingale-thrush, Catharus occidentalis
- Black-billed Nightingale-thrush, Catharus gracilirostris
- Ruddy-capped Nightingale-thrush, Catharus frantzii
- Black-headed Nightingale-thrush, Catharus mexicanus
- Spotted Nightingale-thrush, Catharus dryas
- Genus Hylocichla American thrushes
- Genus Monticola, rock thrushes
- Forest Rock Thrush, Monticola sharpei
- Benson's Rock Thrush, Monticola bensoni
- Littoral Rock Thrush, Monticola imerinus
- Cape Rock Thrush, Monticola rupestris
- Sentinel Rock Thrush, Monticola explorator
- Short-toed Rock Thrush, Monticola brevipes
- Miombo Rock Thrush, Monticola angolensis
- Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Monticola saxatilis
- Little Rock Thrush, Monticola rufocinereus
- Blue-capped Rock Thrush, Monticola cinclorhynchus
- White-throated Rock Thrush, Monticola gularis
- Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush, Monticola rufiventris
- Blue Rock Thrush, Monticola solitarius
- Genus Neocossyphus, flycatcher thrushes and ant thrushes
- Rufous Flycatcher-thrush, Neocossyphus fraseri
- Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush, Neocossyphus finschii
- Red-tailed Ant-thrush, Neocossyphus rufus
- White-tailed Ant-thrush, Neocossyphus poensis
- Genus Myophonus, whistling thrushes
- Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush, Myophonus blighi
- Shiny Whistling Thrush, Myophonus melanurus
- Sunda Whistling Thrush, Myophonus glaucinus
- Malayan Whistling Thrush, Myophonus robinsoni
- Malabar Whistling Thrush, Myophonus horsfieldii
- Formosan Whistling Thrush, Myophonus insularis
- Blue Whistling Thrush, Myophonus caeruleus
- Genus Geomalia
- Geomalia Geomalia heinrichi
- Genus Cataponera
- Sulawesi Thrush, Cataponera turdoides
- Genus Nesocichla
- Tristan Thrush, Nesocichla eremita
- Genus Cichlherminia
- Forest Thrush, Cichlherminia lherminieri
- Genus Sialia, bluebirds
- Genus Myadestes, solitaires
- Townsend's Solitaire, Myadestes townsendi
- Brown-backed Solitaire, Myadestes occidentalis
- Cuban Solitaire, Myadestes elisabeth
- Rufous-throated Solitaire, Myadestes genibarbis
- Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops
- Varied Solitaire, Myadestes coloratus
- Slate-colored Solitaire, Myadestes unicolor
- Andean Solitaire, Myadestes ralloides
- Kamao, Myadestes myadestinus
- Olomao, Myadestes lanaiensis
- Omao, Myadestes obscurus
- Puaiohi, Myadestes palmeri
- Genus Cichlopsis, solitaires
- Rufous-brown Solitaire, Cichlopsis leucogenys
- Genus Entomodestes, solitaires
- White-eared Solitaire, Entomodestes leucotis
- Black Solitaire, Entomodestes coracinus
- Genus Platycichla
- Pale-eyed Thrush, Platycichla leucops
- Yellow-legged Thrush, Platycichla flavipes
- Genus Psophocichla
- Groundscraper Thrush, Psophocichla litsipsirupa
- Genus Chlamydochaera
- Fruit-hunter, Chlamydochaera jefferyi
- Genus Brachypteryx, shortwings
- Rusty-bellied Shortwing, Brachypteryx hyperythra
- Gould's Shortwing, Brachypteryx stellata
- White-bellied Shortwing, Brachypteryx major
- Lesser Shortwing, Brachypteryx leucophrys
- White-browed Shortwing, Brachypteryx montana
- Genus Heinrichia, shortwings
- Great Shortwing, Heinrichia calligyna
- Genus Chaetops, rock-jumpers
- Rufous Rock-jumper, Chaetops frenatus
- Orange-breasted Rock-jumper, Chaetops aurantius,
- Genus Alethe alethes
- Brown-chested Alethe, Alethe poliocephala
- Red-throated Alethe, Alethe poliophrys
- Cholo Alethe, Alethe choloensis
- White-chested Alethe, Alethe fuelleborni
- Fire-crested Alethe, Alethe diademata
For species previously in Turdidae, see Muscicapidae and chats.
