Blue Whistling-thrush

Blue Whistling-thrush
Blue Whistling-thrush
in Royal Agricultural Station, Ang Khang, Mon Pin, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Myophonus
Species: M. caeruleus
Binomial name
Myophonus caeruleus
(Scopoli, 1786)
at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.

The Blue Whistling-thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) is a species of thrush in the family Turdidae. At 178 grams (6.3 oz) and 33 cm (13 inches), it is believed to be the world's largest species of thrush. It feeds mainly on insects.[1]

It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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