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species around the
world have been
named after thrushes due to
their similarity to
birds in this family.
Thrushes are plump, soft-plumaged,
small to medium-sized...
- damp areas, and like many
Geokichla and
Zoothera thrushes, can be
quite secretive. The orange-headed
thrush is omnivorous,
eating a wide
range of insects...
- The
spotted ground thrush (Geokichla guttata) is a
species of bird in the
family ****idae. It is
found in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya...
- Byers, Clive; Wiczur, Jan (2000).
Thrushes.
Christopher Helm. pp. 240–241. ISBN 0713639407. "Abyssinian
Ground-
thrush (Zoothera piaggiae)".
Handbook of...
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aviculturists and birdwatchers, and has led to the
colloquial name jewel-
thrushes. Such is
their attractiveness that, in Borneo, even the body of a dead...
-
Siberian thrush (Geokichla sibirica) is a
member of the
thrush family, ****idae. The
genus name
Geokichla comes from
Ancient Gr**** geo-, "
ground-" and kikhle...
- The
Asian thrushes are medium-sized
mostly insectivorous or
omnivorous birds in the
genus Zoothera of the
thrush family, ****idae. The
genus Zoothera was...
- Crossley's
ground thrush (Geokichla crossleyi) is a
species of bird in the
family ****idae. It is
found in Cameroon,
Republic of the Congo, Democratic...
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Thrushes have been
trapped for food from as far back as 12,000 years ago and an
early reference is
found in the Odyssey: "Then, as
doves or
thrushes beating...
- The
orange ground thrush (Geokichla gurneyi) is a
species of bird in the
family ****idae. The
orange ground thrush was
described as ****us
gurneyi by...
