OTHER NAMES: Red-bellied Thrush, Brown Thrush, Rufous-Breasted Thrush
Latin Etymology: Turdus ("thrush") chrysolaus ("gold thrush")
Female Brown-headed Thrush (subspecies T. c. orii) at Kamakura, Japan - November 2014
Featured Subspecies: Turdus chrysolaus orii
Weight: 60-70g / Length: 23cm / Wingspan: ?
ABSENT FROM UK / IUCN Red List: Least Concern
Out of all the species I have put on this site, this species seems to have least information available on my normal sources. I picked this bird out late in my trip to Kamakura feeding high in the trees with a flock of smaller birds such as Japanese Tit and Japanese White-eye. It breeds in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan and travels South in Winter. It seems to fill much the same ecological niche as the thrushes in the UK - feeding on berries and invertebrates.
Related Species:
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Turdus
Subspecies: T. c. orii, T. c. chrysolaus
- Sighting Locations -
JAPAN - Japanese - アカハラ / Aka-hara ("Red-belly")
Breeding species in Northern Japan, Fairly Winter Migrant to the South
- TOKYO/HOKKAIDO 2014 TRIP: Single individual seen in mixed flock at Kamakura
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