Grey-winged Blackbird

The grey-winged blackbird is a large thrush 28–29 cm long and 88–111 g, with distinct sexual dimorphism. Males are black with faint pale fringes on the belly and a broad grey patch on the wing coverts, secondaries and tertials, somewhat like a ring ouzel but more uniformly grey, with a bright yellow bill and a narrow yellow eye ring. Females are plain brown, with only a hint of paler brown on the wings, a dull yellow to brownish bill and a greyish eye ring (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is found in the mountains of southern and eastern Asia from the Himalaya to northern Vietnam, mostly at 1,800–2,700 m, occasionally down to 1,200 m in winter and up to 3,300 m in summer. The cached account gives no diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant forest bird with a Moderate range of about 145,000 km² and stable trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).