True thrush
Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Yellow-legged thrush Turdus flavipes northern Colombia , Venezuela , far northern Brazil , Trinidad , and Tobago , as well as parts of the Pakaraima Mountains in western Guyana , eastern Brazil , eastern Paraguay , and far northeastern Argentina
Pale-eyed thrush Turdus leucops Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , and Venezuela
African thrush Turdus pelios from Senegal and Gambia in the west to South Sudan , Ethiopia and Eritrea south to northwestern Zambia and western Angola
Bare-eyed thrush Turdus tephronotus Ethiopia , Kenya , Somalia , and Tanzania
Kurrichane thrush Turdus libonyana Angola , Botswana , Burundi , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Lesotho , Malawi , Mozambique , Namibia , South Africa , Swaziland , Tanzania , Zambia , and Zimbabwe
São Tomé thrush Turdus olivaceofuscus São Tomé
Príncipe thrush Turdus xanthorhynchus Príncipe
Olive thrush Turdus olivaceus Tanzania and Zimbabwe in the north to the Cape of Good Hope
Usambara thrush Turdus roehli Tanzania
Abyssinian thrush Turdus abyssinicus Africa from South Sudan south to northern Mozambique
Karoo thrush Turdus smithi South Africa , where it is present in Little Namaqualand , the Karoo and Northern Cape , Free State , Gauteng , Limpopo , Mpumalanga and parts of the North West Province
Somali thrush or Somali blackbird Turdus ludoviciae Somalia
Taita thrush Turdus helleri Taita Hills in Kenya
Yemen thrush Turdus menachensis Middle East
Comoro thrush Turdus bewsheri Comoros Islands
Grey-backed thrush Turdus hortulorum northeastern China and Russia Far East and winters in southern China and northern Vietnam
Tickell 's thrush Turdus unicolor Himalayas , and peninsular India
Black-breasted thrush Turdus dissimilis southwestern China
Japanese thrush Turdus cardis central China and Japan and northern Laos and Vietnam
White-collared blackbird Turdus albocinctus Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Myanmar , Nepal and Pakistan
Taxonomy and systematics -- Extant species
Eighty-four extant species are recognized : [ 4 ]
True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name Turdus is Latin for thrush. The term thrush is used for many other birds of the family Turdidae as well as for a number of species belonging to several other families. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Several species have also colonised some oceanic islands, and two species have been introduced to New Zealand. Some New World species are called robins, the most well known of which is the American robin. Several species are migratory. While some species are often split out of Turdus, the two small thrushes formerly separated in Platycichla by many authors have been restored to the present genus in recent years.