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Brown-headed Thrush

Turdus chrysolaus · Family Turdidae

Turdus chrysolaus

Family Turdidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Turdidae
GBIF occurrence records
56,032
Countries and territories with records
10
Brown-headed Thrush
尹若宇 (oscaryin) · Turdus chrysolaus from iNaturalist photo 253455081 (cropped).jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 尹若宇 (oscaryin) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 56,032 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (81.6%), Japan (13.2%) and the Philippines (1.6%); together they account for 96.3% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Turdus chrysolaus combines the genus name Turdus with the species epithet chrysolaus. The Warbla app catalog lists 85 species of the genus Turdus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Turdus migratorius, Turdus merula and Turdus philomelos.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 155 species of the family Turdidae. This species ranks 45th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Turdus migratorius. Its record count is 10.5% of the family average (532,772). The family Turdidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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