Thrushes and allies form the passerine bird family Turdidae. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes 191 species of thrushes. One hundred four of them are in genus Turdus and the rest are distributed among 15 other genera. This list includes four extinct species that are marked (X).[1]
This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.
| Common name | Binomial name + authority | data-sort-type="number" | IOC sequence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandala | Grandala coelicolor Hodgson, 1843 | 1 | |
| Mountain bluebird | Sialia currucoides (Bechstein, 1798) | 2 | |
| Western bluebird | Sialia mexicana Swainson, 1832 | 3 | |
| Eastern bluebird | Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 4 | |
| Finsch's rufous thrush | Stizorhina finschi (Sharpe, 1870) | 5 | |
| Fraser's rufous thrush | Stizorhina fraseri (Strickland, 1844) | 6 | |
| White-tailed ant thrush | Neocossyphus poensis (Strickland, 1844) | 7 | |
| Red-tailed ant thrush | Neocossyphus rufus (Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884) | 8 | |
| Boulder chat | Pinarornis plumosus Sharpe, 1876 | 9 | |
| Brown-backed solitaire | Myadestes occidentalis Stejneger, 1882 | 10 | |
| Slate-colored solitaire | Myadestes unicolor Sclater, PL, 1857 | 11 | |
| Townsend's solitaire | Myadestes townsendi (Audubon, 1838) | 12 | |
| Kamao (X) | Myadestes myadestinus (Stejneger, 1887) | 13 | |
| Puaiohi | Myadestes palmeri (Rothschild, 1893) | 14 | |
| Olomao | Myadestes lanaiensis (Wilson, SB, 1891) | 15 | |
| Omao | Myadestes obscurus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | 16 | |
| Cuban solitaire | Myadestes elisabeth (Lembeye, 1850) | 17 | |
| Rufous-throated solitaire | Myadestes genibarbis Swainson, 1838 | 18 | |
| Black-faced solitaire | Myadestes melanops Salvin, 1865 | 19 | |
| Varied solitaire | Myadestes coloratus Nelson, 1912 | 20 | |
| Andean solitaire | Myadestes ralloides (d'Orbigny, 1840) | 21 | |
| Fruithunter | Chlamydochaera jefferyi Sharpe, 1887 | 22 | |
| Purple cochoa | Cochoa purpurea Hodgson, 1836 | 23 | |
| Green cochoa | Cochoa viridis Hodgson, 1836 | 24 | |
| Sumatran cochoa | Cochoa beccarii Salvadori, 1879 | 25 | |
| Javan cochoa | Cochoa azurea (Temminck, 1824) | 26 | |
| Varied thrush | Ixoreus naevius (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | 27 | |
| Aztec thrush | Ridgwayia pinicola (Sclater, PL, 1859) | 28 | |
| Rufous-brown solitaire | Cichlopsis leucogenys Cabanis, 1851 | 29 | |
| Black solitaire | Entomodestes coracinus (Berlepsch, 1897) | 30 | |
| White-eared solitaire | Entomodestes leucotis (Tschudi, 1844) | 31 | |
| Wood thrush | Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | 32 | |
| Yellow-throated nightingale-thrush | Catharus dryas (Gould, 1855) | 33 | |
| Speckled nightingale-thrush | Catharus maculatus (Sclater, PL, 1858) | 34 | |
| Orange-billed nightingale-thrush | Catharus aurantiirostris (Hartlaub, 1850) | 35 | |
| Black-headed nightingale-thrush | Catharus mexicanus (Bonaparte, 1856) | 36 | |
| Slaty-backed nightingale-thrush | Catharus fuscater (Lafresnaye, 1845) | 37 | |
| Swainson's thrush | Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840) | 38 | |
| Black-billed nightingale-thrush | Catharus gracilirostris Salvin, 1865 | 39 | |
| Hermit thrush | Catharus guttatus (Pallas, 1811) | 40 | |
| Russet nightingale-thrush | Catharus occidentalis Sclater, PL, 1859 | 41 | |
| Ruddy-capped nightingale-thrush | Catharus frantzii Cabanis, 1861 | 42 | |
| Grey-cheeked thrush | Catharus minimus (Lafresnaye, 1848) | 43 | |
| Bicknell's thrush | Catharus bicknelli (Ridgway, 1882) | 44 | |
| Veery | Catharus fuscescens (Stephens, 1817) | 45 | |
| Long-tailed thrush | Zoothera dixoni (Seebohm, 1881) | 46 | |
| Alpine thrush | Zoothera mollissima (Blyth, 1842) | 47 | |
| Himalayan thrush | Zoothera salimalii Alström, Rasmussen, Zhao J, Xu J, Dalvi, Cai T, Guan Y, Zhang R, Kalyakin, Lei F & Olsson, 2016 | 48 | |
| Sichuan thrush | Zoothera griseiceps (Delacour, 1930) | 49 | |
| Long-billed thrush | Zoothera monticola Vigors, 1832 | 50 | |
| Geomalia | Zoothera heinrichi (Stresemann, 1931) | 51 | |
| Dark-sided thrush | Zoothera marginata Blyth, 1847 | 52 | |
| Everett's thrush | Zoothera everetti (Sharpe, 1892) | 53 | |
| Sunda thrush | Zoothera andromedae (Temminck, 1826) | 54 | |
| White's thrush | Zoothera aurea (Holandre, 1825) | 55 | |
| Scaly thrush | Zoothera dauma (Latham, 1790) | 56 | |
| Nilgiri thrush | Zoothera neilgherriensis (Blyth, 1847) | 57 | |
| Sri Lanka thrush | Zoothera imbricata Layard, EL, 1854 | 58 | |
| Amami thrush | Zoothera major (Ogawa, 1905) | 59 | |
| Bonin thrush (X) | Zoothera terrestris (Kittlitz, 1830) | 60 | |
| Guadalcanal thrush | Zoothera turipavae Cain & Galbraith, ICJ, 1955 | 61 | |
| Makira thrush | Zoothera margaretae (Mayr, 1935) | 62 | |
| Russet-tailed thrush | Zoothera heinei (Cabanis, 1851) | 63 | |
| Fawn-breasted thrush | Zoothera machiki (Forbes, HO, 1884) | 64 | |
| Bassian thrush | Zoothera lunulata (Latham, 1801) | 65 | |
| Black-backed thrush | Zoothera talaseae (Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1926) | 66 | |
| Siberian thrush | Geokichla sibirica (Pallas, 1776) | 67 | |
| Pied thrush | Geokichla wardii (Blyth, 1843) | 68 | |
| Grey ground thrush | Geokichla princei (Sharpe, 1874) | 69 | |
| Black-eared ground thrush | Geokichla camaronensis Sharpe, 1905 | 70 | |
| Spotted ground thrush | Geokichla guttata (Vigors, 1831) | 71 | |
| Spot-winged thrush | Geokichla spiloptera (Blyth, 1847) | 72 | |
| Crossley's ground thrush | Geokichla crossleyi (Sharpe, 1871) | 73 | |
| Abyssinian ground thrush | Geokichla piaggiae (Bouvier, 1877) | 74 | |
| Oberländer's ground thrush | Geokichla oberlaenderi Sassi, 1914 | 75 | |
| Orange ground thrush | Geokichla gurneyi (Hartlaub, 1864) | 76 | |
| Orange-headed thrush | Geokichla citrina (Latham, 1790) | 77 | |
| Buru thrush | Geokichla dumasi Rothschild, 1899 | 78 | |
| Seram thrush | Geokichla joiceyi (Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1921) | 79 | |
| Orange-sided thrush | Geokichla peronii (Vieillot, 1818) | 80 | |
| Slaty-backed thrush | Geokichla schistacea Meyer, AB, 1884 | 81 | |
| Chestnut-capped thrush | Geokichla interpres (Temminck, 1828) | 82 | |
| Enggano thrush | Geokichla leucolaema Salvadori, 1892 | 83 | |
| Chestnut-backed thrush | Geokichla dohertyi Hartert, EJO, 1896 | 84 | |
| Ashy thrush | Geokichla cinerea Bourns & Worcester, 1894 | 85 | |
| Red-backed thrush | Geokichla erythronota Sclater, PL, 1859 | 86 | |
| Red-and-black thrush | Geokichla mendeni (Neumann, 1939) | 87 | |
| Ethiopian thrush | Turdus simensis (Rüppell, 1837) | 88 | |
| Groundscraper thrush | Turdus litsitsirupa (Smith, A, 1836) | 89 | |
| Chinese thrush | Turdus mupinensis Laubmann, 1920 | 90 | |
| Song thrush | Turdus philomelos Brehm, CL, 1831 | 91 | |
| Mistle thrush | Turdus viscivorus Linnaeus, 1758 | 92 | |
| African thrush | Turdus pelios Bonaparte, 1850 | 93 | |
| Principe thrush | Turdus xanthorhynchus Salvadori, 1901 | 94 | |
| Sao Tome thrush | Turdus olivaceofuscus Hartlaub, 1852 | 95 | |
| Abyssinian thrush | Turdus abyssinicus Gmelin, JF, 1789 | 96 | |
| Taita thrush | Turdus helleri (Mearns, 1913) | 97 | |
| Usambara thrush | Turdus roehli Reichenow, 1905 | 98 | |
| Olive thrush | Turdus olivaceus Linnaeus, 1766 | 99 | |
| Kurrichane thrush | Turdus libonyana (Smith, A, 1836) | 100 | |
| Comoro thrush | Turdus bewsheri Newton, E, 1877 | 101 | |
| Bare-eyed thrush | Turdus tephronotus Cabanis, 1878 | 102 | |
| Karoo thrush | Turdus smithi Bonaparte, 1850 | 103 | |
| Somali thrush | Turdus ludoviciae (Lort Phillips, 1895) | 104 | |
| Chinese blackbird | Turdus mandarinus Bonaparte, 1850 | 105 | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus Linnaeus, 1758 | 106 | |
| Common blackbird | Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 | 107 | |
| Yemen thrush | Turdus menachensis Ogilvie-Grant, 1913 | 108 | |
| Taiwan thrush | Turdus niveiceps (Hellmayr, 1919) | 109 | |
| Grey-winged blackbird | Turdus boulboul (Latham, 1790) | 110 | |
| Indian blackbird | Turdus simillimus Jerdon, 1839 | 111 | |
| Tickell's thrush | Turdus unicolor Tickell, 1833 | 112 | |
| Black-breasted thrush | Turdus dissimilis Blyth, 1847 | 113 | |
| Japanese thrush | Turdus cardis Temminck, 1831 | 114 | |
| Grey-backed thrush | Turdus hortulorum Sclater, PL, 1863 | 115 | |
| Eyebrowed thrush | Turdus obscurus Gmelin, JF, 1789 | 116 | |
| Pale thrush | Turdus pallidus Gmelin, JF, 1789 | 117 | |
| Grey-sided thrush | Turdus feae (Salvadori, 1887) | 118 | |
| Brown-headed thrush | Turdus chrysolaus Temminck, 1832 | 119 | |
| Izu thrush | Turdus celaenops Stejneger, 1887 | 120 | |
| Mindoro island thrush | Turdus mindorensis Ogilvie-Grant, 1896 | 121 | |
| Luzon island thrush | Turdus thomassoni (Seebohm, 1894) | 122 | |
| Mindanao island thrush | Turdus nigrorum Ogilvie-Grant, 1896 | 123 | |
| Wallacean island thrush | Turdus schlegelii P. L. Sclater, 1861 | 124 | |
| Christmas island thrush | Turdus erythropleurus Sharpe, 1887 | 125 | |
| Sundiac island thrush | Turdus javanicus Horsfield, 1821 | 126 | |
| Moluccan island thrush | Turdus deningeri Stresemann, 1912 | 127 | |
| Papuan island thrush | Turdus papuensis (De Vis, 1890) | 128 | |
| Bismarck island thrush | Turdus heinrothi Rothschild & Hartert, 1924 | 129 | |
| Bougainville island thrush | Turdus bougainvillei Mayr, 1941 | 130 | |
| Solomons island thrush | Turdus kulambangrae Mayr, 1941 | 131 | |
| Vanikoro island thrush | Turdus vanikorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 | 132 | |
| White-headed island thrush | Turdus pritzbueri E. L. Layard, 1878 | 133 | |
| New Caledonian island thrush | Turdus xanthopus J. R. Forster, 1844 | 134 | |
| Tasman Sea island thrush (X) | Turdus poliocephalus Latham, 1801 | 135 | |
| Samoan island thrush | Turdus samoensis Tristram, 1879 | 136 | |
| Fiji island thrush | Turdus ruficeps (E. P. Ramsay, 1876) | 137 | |
| Tibetan blackbird | Turdus maximus (Seebohm, 1881) | 138 | |
| White-backed thrush | Turdus kessleri (Przevalski, 1876) | 139 | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris Linnaeus, 1758 | 140 | |
| Ring ouzel | Turdus torquatus Linnaeus, 1758 | 141 | |
| Black-throated thrush | Turdus atrogularis Jarocki, 1819 | 142 | |
| Red-throated thrush | Turdus ruficollis Pallas, 1776 | 143 | |
| Dusky thrush | Turdus eunomus Temminck, 1831 | 144 | |
| Naumann's thrush | Turdus naumanni Temminck, 1820 | 145 | |
| Chestnut thrush | Turdus rubrocanus Gray, JE & Gray, GR, 1847 | 146 | |
| White-collared blackbird | Turdus albocinctus Royle, 1840 | 147 | |
| Sulawesi thrush | Turdus turdoides (Hartert, EJO, 1896) | 148 | |
| American robin | Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 | 149 | |
| Black thrush | Turdus infuscatus (Lafresnaye, 1844) | 150 | |
| Rufous-collared thrush | Turdus rufitorques Hartlaub, 1844 | 151 | |
| Sooty thrush | Turdus nigrescens Cabanis, 1861 | 152 | |
| Red-legged thrush | Turdus plumbeus Linnaeus, 1758 | 153 | |
| Grand Cayman thrush (X) | Turdus ravidus (Cory, 1886) | 154 | |
| White-chinned thrush | Turdus aurantius Gmelin, JF, 1789 | 155 | |
| Forest thrush | Turdus lherminieri Lafresnaye, 1844 | 156 | |
| Mountain thrush | Turdus plebejus Cabanis, 1861 | 157 | |
| Pale-eyed thrush | Turdus leucops Taczanowski, 1877 | 158 | |
| White-eyed thrush | Turdus jamaicensis Gmelin, JF, 1789 | 159 | |
| La Selle thrush | Turdus swalesi (Wetmore, 1927) | 160 | |
| Chestnut-bellied thrush | Turdus fulviventris Sclater, PL, 1858 | 161 | |
| Plumbeous-backed thrush | Turdus reevei Lawrence, 1869 | 162 | |
| Chiguanco thrush | Turdus chiguanco d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 | 163 | |
| Andean slaty thrush | Turdus nigriceps Cabanis, 1874 | 164 | |
| Glossy-black thrush | Turdus serranus Tschudi, 1844 | 165 | |
| Black-hooded thrush | Turdus olivater (Lafresnaye, 1848) | 166 | |
| Great thrush | Turdus fuscater d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 | 167 | |
| Austral thrush | Turdus falcklandii Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 | 168 | |
| Lawrence's thrush | Turdus lawrencii Coues, 1880 | 169 | |
| Pantepui thrush | Turdus murinus Salvin, 1885 | 170 | |
| Blacksmith thrush | Turdus subalaris (Seebohm, 1887) | 171 | |
| Creamy-bellied thrush | Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis, 1851 | 172 | |
| Tristan thrush | Turdus eremita (Gould, 1855) | 173 | |
| Maranon thrush | Turdus maranonicus Taczanowski, 1880 | 174 | |
| Black-billed thrush | Turdus ignobilis Sclater, PL, 1858 | 175 | |
| Campina thrush | Turdus arthuri (Chubb, C, 1914) | 176 | |
| Yellow-legged thrush | Turdus flavipes Vieillot, 1818 | 177 | |
| White-throated thrush | Turdus assimilis Cabanis, 1851 | 178 | |
| Dagua thrush | Turdus daguae Berlepsch, 1897 | 179 | |
| White-necked thrush | Turdus albicollis Vieillot, 1818 | 180 | |
| Rufous-backed thrush | Turdus rufopalliatus Lafresnaye, 1840 | 181 | |
| Pale-vented thrush | Turdus obsoletus Lawrence, 1862 | 182 | |
| Pale-breasted thrush | Turdus leucomelas Vieillot, 1818 | 183 | |
| Cocoa thrush | Turdus fumigatus Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823 | 184 | |
| Hauxwell's thrush | Turdus hauxwelli Lawrence, 1869 | 185 | |
| Rufous-bellied thrush | Turdus rufiventris Vieillot, 1818 | 186 | |
| Clay-colored thrush | Turdus grayi Bonaparte, 1838 | 187 | |
| Spectacled thrush | Turdus nudigenis Lafresnaye, 1848 | 188 | |
| Ecuadorian thrush | Turdus maculirostris Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 | 189 | |
| Varzea thrush | Turdus sanchezorum O'Neill, Lane & Naka, 2011 | 190 | |
| Unicolored thrush | Turdus haplochrous Todd, 1931 | 191 | |