General

Eyebrowed Thrush: Medium-sized, robin-like thrush with a gray back and head, orange-brown breast and flanks, and white belly. Black eye line with white borders above and below is conspicuous. Female is duller and has more white on underparts, including throat. Juvenile has browner back.

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.

Breeding and 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.

Foraging and 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.

Readily Eats

Raisins, Currants, Nut Meal

Vocalization

Eyebrowed Thrush: Song is a simple whistling. Call is a high-pitched, drawling "dzee."

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.