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unusual facts about Grey Shrike-thrush



Abyssinian Thrush

This variable forest thrush is generally darker than the African Thrush and has an orange (not yellow) bill.

Alice Dellal

Thrush Metal was formed by Dellal with two other models, Emma Chitty (bassist) and Laura Fraser (vocalist), and Isabella Ramsey, niece of the Earl of Dalhousie (guitar).

Avro Avis

First flown with the Thrush engine prior to the meeting, it was refitted with the Cherub, and first flown with this engine by Bert Hinkler at Lympne on 30 September 1924.

Ayres Thrush

The Thrush was designed by Leland Snow and first flew in 1956, and before long was being produced in series as the S-2 by the company he founded, Snow Aeronautical.

Black-eared Ground Thrush

The subspecies G. c. kibalensis of the Kibale Forest in western Uganda is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Kibale Ground-thrush.

Boolcoomatta, Bindarrah and Kalkaroo Stations Important Bird Area

As well as Plains-wanderers, significant bird populations in the IBA include Chirruping Wedgebills, Cinnamon Quail-thrushes, Inland Dotterels, Redthroats and Slender-billed Thornbills.

Brown-winged Schiffornis

The species was split by the AOU in 2013 from the species complex Thrush-like Schiffornis.

Bulgunnia Station

Bulgunnia has been classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it is a stronghold for the restricted-range and near-threatened Chestnut-breasted Whiteface as well as supporting the biome-restricted Inland Dotterel, Bourke's Parrot, Chiming Wedgebill, Cinnamon Quail-thrush, Pied Honeyeater and Thick-billed Grasswren.

Chestnut-capped Thrush

The superficially similar Chestnut-backed Thrush is substantially larger when seen alongside one another, and has a black crown and rufous back, whereas the Enggano Thrush has an olive-ochre back and little or no white on the lores and auriculars.

Christmas Thrush

The Christmas Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurus ), ia a subspecies of the Island Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus).

Gabriola Island

Shorebirds such as the Black Turnstone and Ruddy Turnstone frequent the island as do garden birds such as the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Thrushes, Warblers, Pileated Woodpeckers, and Flickers.

Goyder Lagoon

Other bird species for which the site is important include the Letter-winged Kite, Inland Dotterel, Grey and Eyrean Grasswrens, Black and Pied Honeyeaters, Gibberbird, Banded Whiteface, Chirruping Wedgebill and Cinnamon Quail-thrush.

Grey-cheeked Thrush

The Grey-cheeked Thrush is all but indistinguishable from Bicknell's Thrush except by its slightly larger size and different song.

Harold Hall Australian Expeditions

One new species, Hall's Babbler, was discovered, and two new subspecies (of the White-quilled Rock-Pigeon and Grey Shrike-thrush) described, while new data were obtained from rare species such as the Black Grasswren and White-lined Honeyeater.

Huahine Starling

According to David Steadman it is possible that the 1774 painting by Georg Forster which depicts a mysterious bird from the island of Raiatea (formerly known as Ulieta) is not of a thrush or a honeyeater, as previously hypothesised, but of a relative of the Huahine Starling.

Ian McGettigan

McGettigan continues to record and perform with Thrush Hermit's Rob Benvie in Camouflage Nights.

Izu Thrush

The Izu Thrush (Turdus celaenops), also known as the Izu Islands Thrush, is a thrush native to the Izu and Ryukyu Islands of Japan, in particular, Hachijojima, Mikurajima, and Miyakejima in the former chain, and Yakushima and the Tokara Islands in the latter.

Lord Howe Thrush

The Lord Howe Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus vinitinctus), also known as Vinous-tinted Thrush or Vinous-tinted blackbird, is an extinct subspecies of the Island Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus).

Outlanders

Other recurring enemies include Colonel Thrush, Sam the Imperator, Grigori Zakat and Maccan, the last prince of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Pow Burn

Plants and animals been sighted at the Pow include sea otters, red admiral, rare dragonflys and songbirds such as thrush and nightingale.

Rufous-backed Thrush

The subspecies of the Islas Tres Marías, also found around San Blas, Nayarit, is sometimes considered a separate species, Grayson's Robin or Grayson's Thrush, Turdus graysoni (Ridgway, 1882).

Rufous-bellied Thrush

The Rufous-bellied Thrush has been the state bird of São Paulo since 1966.

Taita Thrush

The Taita Thrush was previously classified as subspecies of the Olive Thrush (Turdus olivaceus), but it is regarded as distinct species since 1985.

Tristan Thrush

The thrush is thought to have evolved from an ancestor in the genus Turdus from South America, and resembles an immature Austral Thrush, but its adaptations to life on a small island group, including an unusual brush-tipped tongue modified for extracting the contents of eggs, have been used as reasons to warrant its separation into the monotypic genus Nesocichla.

They also found that the thrush is a regular predator of the eggs and small chicks of the Great Shearwater, being responsible for almost half of the egg losses by that species during the early incubation period in a colony on Inaccessible Island.

Veery

The Veery (Catharus fuscescens) is a small North American thrush species, a member of a group of closely related and similar species in the genus Catharus, also including the Gray-cheeked Thrush (C. minimus) and Bicknell's Thrush (C. bicknelli).

Vermont Is for Lovers

Vermont is for Lovers is an independently produced docudrama released in 1992, starring George Thrush and Marya Cohn and shot on location Tunbridge, Vermont.

W. W. Fosdick

Fosdick’s lyrical poetry such as Ariel, The Maize The Catawba,The Thrush, The Pawpaw, Light and Night, and Lute and Love often reflected his Mid-Western roots and at times were put to music by composers like Poulton and William Vincent.

Yellow-legged Thrush

The Yellow-legged Thrush mainly feeds in trees and bushes, infrequently on the ground, and mostly eats fruits and berries, e.g., Melastomataceae.


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