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Eyebrowed Thrush

Turdus obscurusOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Thrushes (Turdidae)
Codes: Common Name: EYTH Scientific Name: TUROBC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179767
Least Concern
 
Eyebrowed Thrush Breeding Male
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Overview

Eyebrowed Thrush: Medium, robin-like thrush, gray back and head, orange-brown breast and flanks, white belly and undertail coverts. Black eye line with white borders above and below is conspicuous. Yellow bill with dark culmen. Strong, direct and fast flight on rapidly beating wings.

Range and Habitat

Eyebrowed Thrush: Breeds in dense coniferous forests and taiga eastwards from Siberia; winters south to southeast Asia and Indonesia; rare vagrant to western Europe. Rare to casual in North America, but a regular visitor each spring in western Aleutians.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Voice Text

"Dzee".

Interesting Facts

 A group of thrushes are collectively known as "a hermitage of thrushes", and a "mutation of thrushes."


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Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Range Map for Eyebrowed Thrush

Related Birds

Varied Thrush
American Robin
Fieldfare
Dusky Thrush
Redwing
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Family Thrush (Turdidae)_blue
Species Turdus obscurus
Length8 - 9 Inches
Wingspan12.5 Inches

Eyebrowed Thrush

Eyebrowed Thrush: Medium, robin-like thrush, gray back and head, orange-brown breast and flanks, white belly and undertail coverts. Black eye line with white borders above and below is conspicuous. Yellow bill with dark culmen. Strong, direct and fast flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Song: "Dzee".

● Foraging & Feeding: Eyebrowed Thrush: Eats insects, earthworms, berries, and fruits. Forages on the ground beneath tall trees, hopping and stopping to jab vigorously at the ground or to pick up food; also gleans food from branches and foliage.

● Breeding & nesting: Eyebrowed Thrush: Five to six gray to blue green eggs with red brown markings are laid in a nest made of rootlets, grass, sticks, and bark, lined with soil and grass, and built in a tree fork from 3 to 15 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 13 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Eyebrowed Thrush: American Robin is larger, has broken white eye-ring, black streaked white throat, dark gray-brown upperparts, and brown-black tail with white tipped corners.

Flight Pattern

Swift strong direct flight on rapidly beating wings.
Eyebrowed Thrush Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Eyebrowed Thrush: Breeds in dense coniferous forests and taiga eastwards from Siberia; winters south to southeast Asia and Indonesia; rare vagrant to western Europe. Rare to casual in North America, but a regular visitor each spring in western Aleutians.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationRare to casual
MigrationMigratory
Weight2.2 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
Undertail covertsX
Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.
BellyX
The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
CulmenX
The uppermost central ridge of the upper mandible.
Eye lineX
The line of feathers just in front of and behind the eyes. It extends back from the posterior angle of the eye. This can be a useful trait used in identification in the field since it is very noticeable.
4 and 6 letter alpha codesX

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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Parts of a Standing birdX
Head Feathers and MarkingsX
Parts of a Flying birdX