Thrushes & Allies

Look for The Townsend’s solitaire is a relatively small thrush. Its plumage is cool gray overall, with slightly lighter underparts. […]

Look for The clay-colored thrush, formally known as the clay-colored robin, is a large thrush that is relatively unremarkable in

Look for The gray-cheeked thrush is a small, spot-breasted thrush. It lacks eye-catching, distinguishing features, and has plain, olive-brown upperparts

Look for The varied thrush is large songbird with a stout build, short tail, and distinctly colored plumage. It has

Look for The veery is a small, spot-breasted thrush. It is the rustiness of the eastern thrushes, with reddish-brown upperparts,

Look For Swainson’s thrush was once called the olive-backed thrush. The name changed in part because some Swainson’s thrush populations

Look for This medium-sized (7 ¾ inches in length) brown thrush has a bright rufous head and neck, olive-brown back

Look for Named for its shy, retiring ways, the hermit thrush can be distinguished from the other brownish thrushes by

Look for The robin’s simple yet evocative cheerily-cheerio song meshes well with the thunk of basketballs and the drone of

Our all-blue bluebird, the mountain bluebird nests in open country at elevations above 5,000 feet in the west. This species

Field Marks Adult males are deep blue on the head, back, and tail with bright rusty breast, shoulders, and back.

Look for The eastern bluebird is our most famous thrush, even more popular than its cousin, the American robin. Its