Asian thrush

Asian thrushes
Z. aurea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Turdidae
Genus:	Zoothera Vigors, 1832
Species
Some 35, see text

The Asian thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Zoothera of the thrush family, Turdidae.

Two New World species traditionally regarded as Zoothera; (varied thrush and Aztec thrush) actually belong elsewhere in the thrush family. A group containing Siberian thrush and the African species is not closely related to the other Zoothera and are now assigned to the genus Geokichla.

Species in taxonomic order

• Sulawesi mountain-thrush, Zoothera heinrichi^[1][2]
• Everett's thrush, Zoothera everetti
• Sunda thrush, Zoothera andromedae
• Plain-backed thrush, Zoothera mollissima
• Long-tailed thrush, Zoothera dixoni
• Scaly thrush, Zoothera dauma
  • Amami thrush, Zoothera (dauma) major
• White's thrush, Zoothera aurea
• Nilgiri thrush, Zoothera neilgherriensis
• Sri Lanka thrush, Zoothera imbricata
• Fawn-breasted thrush, Zoothera machiki
• Bassian thrush, Zoothera lunulata
• Russet-tailed thrush, Zoothera heinei
• Black-backed thrush, Zoothera talaseae
• White-bellied thrush, Zoothera margaretae
• Guadalcanal thrush, Zoothera turipavae
• Long-billed thrush, Zoothera monticola
• Dark-sided thrush, Zoothera marginata
• Bonin thrush, Zoothera terrestris - extinct (c. 1830s)
• Himalayan forest thrush, Zoothera salimalii^[3]

Traditional Zoothera species belonging elsewhere in family

• Varied thrush, Ixoreus naevius - related to other new world genera
• Aztec thrush, Ridgwayia pinicola - related to Hylocichla

Geokichla thrushes

• Slaty-backed thrush, Geokichla schistacea
• Pied thrush, Geokichla wardii
• Ashy thrush, Geokichla cinerea
• Orange-sided thrush, Geokichla peronii
• Orange-headed thrush, Geokichla citrina
• Spot-winged thrush, Geokichla spiloptera
• Siberian thrush, Geokichla sibirica
• Abyssinian ground thrush, Geokichla piaggiae
  • Kivu ground thrush, Geokichla piaggiae tanganjicae
• Crossley's ground thrush, Geokichla crossleyi
• Orange ground thrush, Geokichla gurneyi
• Black-eared ground thrush, Geokichla cameronensis
• Grey ground thrush, Geokichla princei
• Spotted ground thrush, Geokichla guttata - formerly G. fischeri
• Oberländer's ground thrush, Geokichla oberlaenderi
• Buru thrush, Geokichla dumasi
• Seram thrush, Geokichla joiceyi
• Chestnut-capped thrush, Geokichla interpres
• Enggano thrush, Geokichla leucolaema
• Red-backed thrush, Geokichla erythronota
• Red-and-black thrush, Geokichla mendeni
• Chestnut-backed thrush, Geokichla dohertyi

References

1. Olsson U.，Alström P. (2013). Molecular evidence suggests that the enigmatic Sulawesi endemic Geomalia heinrichi belongs in the genus Zoothera (Turdidae, Aves). Chinese Birds 4 (2): 155–160.
2. Gill F. and Donsker D. (eds), Family Turdidae in «IOC World Bird Names (ver 4.1)», International Ornithologists’ Union, 2014.
3. New species of bird discovered in India and China

• Klicka, J., G. Voelker, and G.M. Spellman. 2005.A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the ‘‘true thrushes’’ (Aves: Turdinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 486–500.
• Sangster, G., J.M. Collinson, P.-A. Crochet, A.G. Knox, D.T. Parkin, L. Svensson, and S.C. Votier. 2011. Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: seventh report. Ibis 153: 883-892.
• Voelker, G., and J. Klicka. 2008. Systematics of Zoothera thrushes, and a synthesis of true thrush molecular systematic relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 377–381.
• Voelke, G., and R.K. Outlaw. 2008. Establishing a perimeter position: speciation around the Indian Ocean Basin. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1779–1788.

External links

• Asian thrush videos on the Internet Bird Collection