New Britain thrush

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2020 |title=Zoothera talaseae |volume=2020 |page=e.T103879758A177348961 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T103879758A177348961.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| genus = Zoothera

| species = talaseae

| authority = (Rothschild & Hartert, 1926)

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The New Britain thrush (Zoothera talaseae) is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is found in the montane forests on the Papua New Guinean islands of New Britain and Umboi.

The Bougainville thrush was formerly considered to be conspecific with the New Britain thrush and together the complex was known as the black-backed thrush.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Thrushes | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/thrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=23 March 2025 }}