Black-throated Thrush

The black-throated thrush is a large, distinctive thrush. The male has black from the chin to the breast, grey upperparts, a greyish-black tail and whitish underparts, with orange-red underwing coverts that show in flight. Females and immatures have dusky streaks in place of the black. It was once treated as one species with the red-throated thrush under the name dark-throated thrush (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds from late May to late July, alone or in loose groups, along the edges of clearings in coniferous or mixed forest, often by rivers or in swampy ground, placing a nest of grass and twigs bound with earth within about 2m of the ground. In winter it forms large flocks with other thrushes, feeds on the ground and roosts in dense evergreen vegetation. In India it is a winter migrant with a moderate range; SoIB 2023 finds its trends uncertain and rates it a Low conservation priority (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).