Thursday, April 10, 2025

Blue-Whistling Thrush

The blue-whistling thrush is found in the mountains of central, south and southeast Asia and China. I saw one near the Diphlu Lodge near Kaziranga NP in Assam, India. 
Range of the blue-whistling thrush from Birds of the World. 
It is dark violet blue with "shiny spangling on the tips of the body feathers other than the lores, abdomen and under the tail." The wing coverts are a different shade of blue and there are white spots on the tips of the median coverts. The tail feathers are black. Both sexes look similar. 
An illustration of  M. c. temminckii from Birds of the World. 
There are six subspecies and I saw Myophonus caeruleus temminckii, found in the mountains of central Asia to central west China and northeast Myanmar. 
I got poor photos in bad light. 



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