Long‑billed Thrush Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Zoothera marginata
Family : Turdidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Long-billed Thrush is a big passerine with an elongated curved bill, hooked at the tip (length 28 cm, weight 125 g, wing 14 cm, bill 4.3 cm, tarsus 3.5 cm, tail 8 cm). It looks slaty-brown from above and olive-brown to dusky white from below. It’s ear-covert and cheek have pale stripes. It has whitish throat with dark brown spots on the side of the throat, breast and flanks. A white underwing patch is visible in flight. Its irises and bill are dark brown and legs and feet are horny-brown. The male and the female look alike. It feeds on insects, larvae, molluscs and berries. It breeds in May-July.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Cyornis unicolor
(Pale‑chinned Flycatcher) -
Tarsiger hyperythrus
(Himalayan (Orange-flanked) Bush-robin) -
Cyornis rubeculoides
(Lesser Shortwing) -
Ficedula westermanni
(Rusty-tailed Flycatcher) -
Muscicapa ferruginea
(Brown-breasted Flycatcher) -
Zoothera mollissima/salimalii
(Dark‑sided Thrush) -
Luscinia svecica
(Firethroat) -
Turdus obscurus
(Tibetan Blackbird) -
Turdus albocinctus
(Dusky Thrush) -
Ficedula tricolor
(Snowy‑browed Flycatcher)
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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: upupamartin(www.inaturalist.org/people/upupamartin),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: upupamartin(www.inaturalist.org/people/upupamartin),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.