Thrushes of Vietnam – Turdidae
With 23 species Thrushes of Vietnam, occurring over the country. They are permanently resident in warm climates, while others migrate to higher latitudes during summer, often over considerable distances. Orange-headed Thrush is outstanding with this characteristic.
You may know: Thrush does not have an impressive size but their voice is one of the loudest sounds in the birds family
The overview of Thrushes families
The Thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the chats and European robins, as Old World flycatchers. Thrushes are small to medium-sized ground-living birds that feed on insects, other invertebrates, and fruit. Some unrelated species around the world have been named after thrushes due to their similarity to birds in this family
Turdidae species spread the seeds of plants, contributing to the dispersal of many species and the recovery of ecosystems.
Plants have limited seed dispersal mobility away from the parent plant and consequently rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their propagules, including both abiotic and biotic vectors. Seeds can be dispersed away from the parent plant individually or collectively, as well as dispersed in both space and time.
Many bats and birds rely heavily on fruits for their diet, including birds in the families Cotingidae, Columbidae, Trogonidae, Turdidae, and Ramphastidae. While eating fruit, these animals swallow seeds and then later regurgitate them or pass them in their feces. Such ornithochory has been a major mechanism of seed dispersal across ocean barriers.
Other seeds may stick to the feet or feathers of birds, and in this way may travel long distances. Seeds of grasses, spores of algae, and the eggs of mollusks and other invertebrates commonly establish in remote areas after long journeys of this sort. The Turdidae have great ecological importance because some populations migrate long distances and disperse the seeds of endangered plant species at new sites, helping to eliminate inbreeding and increasing the genetic diversity of local flora
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Thrushes of Vietnam species note
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Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina
Status: Common resident & migrant
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tour cover: Central Highland
Hotspot: Cat Tien, Tan Phu, Dalat
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Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
Status: Fairly Common resident
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tours: Exclude Southern
Hotspot: Dalat plateau, Bach Ma, Sa Pa
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Grey-backed Thrush Turdus hortulorum
Status: Uncommon Migrant
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tours: Exclude Northern Highland
Hotspot: Cuc Phuong
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Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
Status: Common Migrant
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tours: Exclude Southern & Central Highland
Hotspot: Bach Ma, Cuc Phuong, Ba Vi
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Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma
Status: Uncommon Migrant
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tours: Exclude Southern
Hotspot: Dalat, Xuan Thuy, SaPa
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Dark-sided Thrush Zoothera marginata
Status: Local common resident
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tours: Exclude Southern
Hotspot: Dalat, Xuan Thuy, SaPa
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Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul
Status: Uncommon Resident
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tours: Northern Highland
Hotspot: Sa Pa – Fansipan Moutain
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Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis
Status: Common Resident
Best time to watch & Photo: Jun-Aug
Tours: Central Highland
Hotspot: Dalat, Kon Tum
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Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica
Status: Rare Pass Migrant
Best time to watch & Photo: Feb-Apr
Tour: Highland
Hotspot: Dalat, Phong Nha, Sa Pa
List of all Thrush in Vietnam
Name | Level | |
1 | Long-tailed Thrush | Easy |
2 | Alpine Thrush | Easy |
3 | Himalayan Thrush | High |
4 | Sichuan Thrush | Easy |
5 | Dark-sided Thrush | Easy |
6 | Long-billed Thrush | Easy |
7 | White’s Thrush | Easy |
8 | Scaly Thrush | High |
9 | Purple Cochoa | Easy |
10 | Siberian Thrush | High |
11 | Orange-headed Thrush | Easy |
12 | Chinese Thrush | Easy |
13 | Chinese Blackbird | Easy |
14 | Gray-winged Blackbird | High |
15 | Japanese Thrush | Easy |
16 | Gray-backed Thrush | High |
17 | Black-breasted Thrush | Easy |
18 | Eyebrowed Thrush | Easy |
19 | Pale Thrush | Easy |
20 | Chestnut Thrush | Easy |
21 | Red-throated Thrush | Easy |
22 | Dusky Thrush | Easy |
23 | Green Cochoa | Easy |
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