Thrush (bird)

Thrushes are small to medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds of the family Turdidae, which also includes the chats, wheatears and redstarts.

In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the thrushes form a sub-family Turdinini.

Members of the family include:

• true thrushes:
  • Turdus
• Asian thrushes:
  • Zoothera
• American thrushes
  • Catharus
  • Hylocichla
• rock thrushes
  • Pseudocossyphus
  • Monticola
• flycatcher-thrushes and ant-thrushes[?]
  • Neocossyphus
• whistling-thrushes
  • Myophonus
• Geomalia[?], Geomalia heinrichi
• Sulawesi Thrush[?], Cataponera turdoides
• Tristan Thrush[?], Nesocichla eremita
• Forest Thrush[?], Cichlherminia lherminieri
• bluebirds
  • Sialia
• solitaires, including Kamao, Olomao, Omao, and Puaiohi
  • Myadestes
  • Entomodestes
• Pale-eyed Thrush[?], Platycichla leucops
• Yellow-legged Thrush[?], Platycichla flavipes
• Groundscraper Thrush[?], Psophocichla litsipsirupa
• Varied Thrush[?], Ixoreus naevius
• Aztec Thrush[?], Ridgwayia pinicola
• Fruit-hunter[?], Chlamydochaera jefferyi
• shortwings
  • Brachypteryx
  • Heinrichia
• rock-jumpers
  • Chaetops
• alethes
  • Alethe

Small Eurasian Turdidae are commonly known as chats.