Red-throated thrush

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Red-throated thrush in Nepal (1) (cropped).jpg

| image_caption = Red-throated thrush, Nepal

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=Turdus ruficollis |volume=2018 |page=e.T103892167A132202551 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T103892167A132202551.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Turdus

| species = ruficollis

| authority = Pallas, 1776

}}

The red-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", black-throated thrush then being the other subspecies.{{cite book |last1=Clement |first1=Peter |last2=Hathway |first2=Ren |last3=Wilczur |first3=Jan |date=2000 |title=Thrushes (Helm Identification Guides) |publisher=Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd. |pages=377–381 |isbn=0-7136-3940-7}} More recent treatments regard the two as separate species.{{cite journal |author=British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee |date=2009 |title=British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee: 37th Report (October 2008) |journal=Ibis |volume=151 |pages=224–230 |url=http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/view_online.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.mnhn.fr%2Fcrbpo%2FIMG%2Fpdf%2FBOURC_2009_Ibis_151_1_.pdf |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919x.2008.00901.x |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717232817/http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/view_online.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.mnhn.fr%2Fcrbpo%2FIMG%2Fpdf%2FBOURC_2009_Ibis_151_1_.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-17 |doi-access=free }} The scientific name comes from Latin. Turdus is "thrush" and the specific ruficollis is derived from rufus, "red", and collum, "neck".{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n60 60], 393}}

The red-throated thrush is a migratory Palearctic species. It breeds in East Siberia to North Manchuria wintering to West China, Myanmar, and Northeast India. Its range overlaps with the more westerly-breeding black-throated thrush. It is a large thrush with a plain grey back and reddish underwings.{{Cite web|title=Red-throated Thrush - eBird|url=https://ebird.org/species/retthr1|website=ebird.org|language=en|access-date=2020-05-24}} The adult male has a red throat. Females and young birds lack the bib, but have black-streaked underparts. This bird species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

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