Blue Whistling Thrush Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Enicurus leschenaulti
Family : Muscicapidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind of forests
Description : The Blue Whistling Thrush is a large passerine (length 33 cm, weight 165 g, wing 17 cm, bill 3.5 cm, tarsus 5.3 cm, tail 13 cm approximately). It is a dark blue-black bird spotted with glistering silvery-blue. Its forehead, sides of wing and tail are bright-blue. It has a few silver-blue spots on the median wing-covert. Its irises are dark brown, bill is yellow with blackish at base and culmen, legs, feet and claws are black and the soles are yellowish-grey. The male and the female look alike. It feeds on earthworms, snails, crabs, frogs, larvae, aquatic insects and berries. It breeds in April-August.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Niltava grandis
(Verditer Flycatcher) -
Turdus boulboul
(Black‑breasted Thrush) -
Calliope tschebaiewi
(White‑tailed Blue Robin) -
Muscicapa sibirica
(Ferruginous Flycatcher) -
Zoothera marginata
(Long‑billed Thrush) -
Tarsiger rufilatus
(White-browed Bush-robin) -
Saxicola torquatus
(Desert Wheatear) -
Turdus dissimilis
(Tickell's Thrush) -
Saxicola jerdoni
(Grey Bushchat) -
Myiomela leucura
(Rufous‑breasted Bush-robin)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Rohit (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Rohit ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Rohit (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Rohit ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;more information, please contact us.