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ť See also other birds with "thrush" in their name: Waterthrush, Shrike-thrush, Thrush Nightingale
The Thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World.
   They are plump, soft-plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. They range in size from the Forest Rock Thrush (Monticola sharpei), at 21 grams and 14.5 cm (5.8 inches), to the Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus), at 178 grams (6.3 oz) and 33 cm (13 inches). The songs of some species, including members of the genera Catharus, Myadestes, and Turdus, are considered to be among the most beautiful in the avian world.
   The taxonomic treatment of this large family has varied significantly in recent years. Traditionally, the Turdidae included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but most authorities now place this group in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
   This article follows the Handbook of the Birds of the World with edits from Clement and Hathaway, Thrushes (2000), and retains the large thrushes in Turdidae. Recent biochemical studies place certain traditional thrush genera (Monticola, Pseudocossyphus, Myiophonus, Brachypteryx, and Alethe) in the Muscicapidae. Conversely the Asian saxicoline genera Grandala and Cochoa belong here among the thrushes.
Family Turdidae
Genus Turdus: true thrushes (some 65 species, 1 recently extinct)
Genus Platycichla (2 species) - part of a South American group within Turdus
Genus Nesocichla: Tristan Thrush or Starchy - part of a South American group within Turdus
Genus Cichlherminia: Forest Thrush - genus paraphyletic with Turdus
Genus Psophocichla : Groundscraper Thrush
Genus Zoothera: Asian thrushes (some 22 species, 1 recently extinct)
Genus Catharus: typical American thrushes and nightingale-thrushes (12 species)
Genus Hylocichla : Wood Thrush
Genus Ridgwayia: Aztec Thrush - related to Hylocichla
Genus Ixoreus : Varied Thrush - related to other New World genera
Genus Geomalia: Geomalia
Genus Cataponera: Sulawesi Thrush
Genus Sialia: bluebirds (3 species)
Genus Grandala, Grandala - related to Sialia
Genus Cichlopsis: Rufous-brown Solitaire - related to Catharus
Genus Entomodestes: solitaires (2 species) - related to Catharus
Genus Myadestes: solitaires (10-11 living species, 2-3 recently extinct)
Genus Neocossyphus: flycatcher thrushes and "ant-thrushes" (4 species) - related to Myadestes
Genus Cochoa, cochoas (4 species)
Genus Chlamydochaera: Fruit-hunter - related to Cochoa
Now usually considered a distinct family distantly related to Picathartes:

Genus Chaetops: rock-jumpers (2 species) For other species previously in Turdidae, see Muscicapidae and chats.


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