Tickell's Thrush Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Turdus dissimilis
Family : Turdidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind of forests
Description : The Tickell’s Thrush is a small passerine whose male looks a little different from the female (length 21 cm, weight 65 g, wing 12 cm, bill 2.3 cm, tarsus 3 cm, tail 8.5 cm. The male looks ashy-grey from above and blue-grey and white from below. It has rufous underwingcoverts. The female looks olive-brown from above and white from below. It has a faint supercilium, dark malar stripes, white throat, brown side stripe, pale olive-brown stripe across the breast with dark brown streaking, olive to orange-buff flanks, white belly and undertailcovert. Both sexes have brown irises, yellow eye-ring, yellow to orange-yellow bill and brownish-yellow legs and feet. The male in first winter looks like the female except for its grey cast on rump, uppertail-covert and breast. It feeds on insects, larvae, earthworms, berries, plums, apricots and other fruits in orchards. It breeds in April-August.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Oenanthe deserti
(Asian Fairy Bluebird) -
Enicurus immaculatus
(White‑crowned Forktail) -
Calliope tschebaiewi
(White‑tailed Blue Robin) -
Zoothera marginata
(Long‑billed Thrush) -
Luscinia svecica
(Firethroat) -
Turdus eunomus
(Black- (Dark‑) throated Thrush) -
Ficedula strophiata
(Sapphire Flycatcher) -
Larvivora brunnea
(Siberian Blue Robin) -
Ficedula westermanni
(Rusty-tailed Flycatcher) -
Calliope calliope
(Chinese (White‑tailed) Rubythroat)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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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
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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
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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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: Jerry Oldenettel (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Jerry Oldenettel ),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;bird song owner:Frank Lambert(www.xeno-canto.org/Frank Lambert), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; 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: Jerry Oldenettel (www.inaturalist.org/people/ Jerry Oldenettel ),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;bird song owner:Frank Lambert(www.xeno-canto.org/Frank Lambert), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.