Varied Thrush
Introduction
A large thrush, with striking orange and black plumage, that breeds in the coastal redwood forests of western Canada and Alaska.
Varied Thrush is an extremely rare visitor to Britain, added to the British List on the basis of an individual seen at Nanquidno, Cornwall in November 1982.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Size
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution.
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
This species has been too rarely reported to BirdTrack during 2011–22 to properly assess seasonality.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Turdidae
- Scientific name: Ixoreus naevius
- Authority: JF Gmelin, 1789
- BTO 2-letter code: VT
- Euring code number: 11720
Alternate species names
- Catalan: tord de collar
- Czech: drozd pruhokrídlý
- Danish: Flammedrossel
- Dutch: Bonte Lijster
- Estonian: laanerästas
- Finnish: amerikankirjorastas
- French: Grive à collier
- German: Halsbanddrossel
- Hungarian: tarka földirigó
- Icelandic: Barrþröstur
- Italian: Tordo vario
- Latvian: mainigais zemesstrazds
- Lithuanian: apykakletasis dirvinis strazdas
- Norwegian: Båndtrost
- Polish: rudodrozd
- Portuguese: tordo-variegado
- Slovak: drozd obojkový
- Slovenian: pisani droznik
- Spanish: Zorzal pinto
- Swedish: sitkatrast
