The American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a bird in the Turdidae family of thrushes. It is a songbird.
The American Robin has a reddish-orange chest with a black to greyish head. It has white eye arcs that look like eyebrows. Its throat is white with black streaks and its belly and undertail are white. It has a brown back. Its beak is yellowish with a dark tip. Its legs and feet are brown.
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The Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) is a bird in the Turdidae famiy of thrushes. It is also called the Common Blackbird. It is a thrush common in Europe, Asia, and north Africa.
The adult Eurasian Blackbird is black with grey legs, a yellow-orange beak, and yellow eye-rings. The female has dark-brown feathers.
The female Eurasian Blackbird builds a mud-lined, cup-shaped nest from grass and leaves. She lays 3-5 bluish-green eggs with reddish-brown blotches, which she incubates for 12–14 days before the altricial (blind and naked) chicks are hatched.
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The Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus) is a bird in the Turdidae family of thrushes.
The Olive Thrush has charcoal-brown to olive-brown feathers with an orange underbelly. Its throat is sometimes speckled with white spots. Its eyes have a distinctive orange eye-ring. Its beak and its legs are orange-red.
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What is a group of thrush called?
A group of thrush is called a mutation of thrush.
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The Song Thrush (Turdos philomelos) is a small bird in the Turdidae family of thrushes. It is closely related to the Mistle Thrush.
The Song Thrush has brown upperparts and black-spotted cream or buff underparts. Its underwing is yellowish. It has a rounded head with dark-brown eyes. Its legs and feet are brown.
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The Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) is a small bird in the Turdidae family of thrushes. It is related to the Song Thrush and the Mistle Thrush.
The Fieldfare is mainly brown, with a brown back, dark-brown wings, dark-brown tail, and white underwings. Its wings are long and pointed. It has a bluish-grey crown, grey rump, and grey neck. Its chest and sides are spotted with dark-brown markings. It has a rounded head with dark-brown eyes. Its beak is short and yellowish. Its legs and feet are brown.
The male and female are similar in appearance, but the female has more brown feathers than the male.
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The Blue-Crowned Laughing Thrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is a small critically endangered bird. It is also called the Courtois’s Laughing Bird or Courtois’s Laughing Thrush.
The Blue-Crowned Laughing Thrush has short, rounded wings and a long tail. It is olive-brown, with a deep blue crown and nape, and a black mask across its face. It has a yellow throat, a yellowish-grey band across its chest, and a yellow belly. Its wings are blue. Its vent, near the tail, is white, and the base of its white-tipped tail is greyish.
The Indian Orange-Headed Ground Thrush (Geokichla citrina cyanotic) is a common small bird in the Turdidae family.
The Indian Orange-Headed Ground Thrush is mainly grey, with an orange head and orange upperparts. It has a white throat and the sides of its face, with two black stripes running downwards from below the eyes. The female has less orange. It has a white undertail. Its beak is grey, and its legs and feet are brownish-pink.
The Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) is also called the Common Blackbird. It is a thrush from Europe, Asia, and north Africa.
The Eurasian Blackbird is black with grey legs, a yellow-orange beak, and yellow eye-rings.
The Northern Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus abyssinicus) is a bird in the Turdidae family of thrushes.
The Northern Olive Thrush has dull olive brown feathers with a white belly and orange underparts. Its throat is speckled with white spots. Its eye has a distinctive yellow eye-ring. It has a yellow beak and yellow legs.