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| Zoothera dauma ( Latham, 1790) |
The White's Thrush (Zoothera dauma) is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae.
It breeds in wet coniferous taiga, mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia. Northern races are strongly migratory, with most birds moving to southeastern Asia during the winter. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. It is very secretive, preferring dense cover.
There are four races: Z. d. aurea is the migratory Siberian form, Z. d. dauma breeds in the Himalayas and migrates to the foothills in winter. Z. d. neilgherriensis is resident in the hills of southwest IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy. and Z. d. imbicata is endemic to the hills of Sri LankaThe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon before 1972) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known in ancient times as Lanka Lankadweepa (meaning "Resplendent Land" in Sanskrit), Taprobane an.
The non-migratory forms are sometimes considered as separate species. The Sri Lankan race is particularly distinctive, being smaller, long-billed and rufous below, and is sometimes split as Scaly Thrush.
White's Thrushes nest in trees, laying three or four dull green eggIn some animals, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. It nourishes and protects the embryo. Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other development within the mother. This is the reproductive way of manys in a neat cup nest. They are one of the largest thrushes at 27cm, and are omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, wormA worm is any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animals. The most famous is the earthworm, a member of phylum Annelida, but there are hundreds of thousands of different species that live in a wide variety of habitats other ths and berries.
The sexes are similar, with black scaling on a paler white or yellowish background. The most striking identification feature in flight is the black band on the white underwings, a feature shared with Siberian ThrushSiberian Thrush : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Passeriformes : Turdidae Zoothera sibirica Binomial name ''Zoothera sibirica Pallas, 1776) The Siberian Thrush Zoothera sibirica is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in taiga in Siberia. It is.
The male has a song which is a mechanical whistle.
This bird was named after the English naturalist Gilbert WhiteGilbert White ( July 18, 1720 June 26, 1793) was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist. White was born at Selborne in Hampshire. He was educated by a private tutor in Basingstoke before going to Oriel College, Oxford. White obtained his deacon's order.