The ''Geokichla'' thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

s in the thrush family,

Turdidae The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the chats and European robins, as Old World flycat ...

. They were traditionally listed in the '' Zoothera'', but studies suggested their placement in another genus. The genus name ''Geokichla'' comes from

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

''geo-'', "ground-" and ''kikhle'', " thrush".

List of species

Siberian thrush The Siberian thrush (''Geokichla sibirica'') is a member of the thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name ''Geokichla'' comes from Ancient Greek ''geo-'', "ground-" and ''kikhle'', " thrush". The specific ''sibirica'' is Latin for Siberia. It bree ...

, ''Geokichla sibirica'' *

Pied thrush The pied thrush (''Geokichla wardii'') is a member of the thrush family found in India and Sri Lanka. The males are conspicuously patterned in black and white while the females are olive brown and speckled. They breed in the central Himalayan ...

, ''Geokichla wardii'' * Grey ground thrush, ''Geokichla princei'' * Black-eared ground thrush, ''Geokichla cameronensis'' *

Spotted ground thrush The spotted ground thrush (''Geokichla guttata'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, and possibly Mozambique. Description These birds a ...

, ''Geokichla guttata'' - formerly ''G. fischeri'' *

Spot-winged thrush The spot-winged thrush, (''Geokichla spiloptera''), is an Asian thrush, a group within the large thrush family Turdidae. It is an endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka. This uncommon species breeds in hill rainforests, and to a lesser extent ...

, ''Geokichla spiloptera'' * Crossley's ground thrush, ''Geokichla crossleyi'' *

Abyssinian ground thrush The Abyssinian ground thrush (''Geokichla piaggiae'') is a thrush from the family Turdidae which is native to north-east Africa where it lives at high altitude in montane forests. Description The Abyssinian ground thrush is an attractive but r ...

, ''Geokichla piaggiae'' ** Kivu ground thrush, ''Geokichla piaggiae tanganjicae'' * Oberländer's ground thrush, ''Geokichla oberlaenderi'' *

Orange ground thrush The orange ground thrush (''Geokichla gurneyi'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. Taxonomy The orange ground thrush was described as ''Turdus gurneyi'' by Hartlaub in 1864. It is named after John Henry Gurney Sr., an English banker, ...

, ''Geokichla gurneyi'' *

Orange-headed thrush The orange-headed thrush (''Geokichla citrina'') is a bird in the thrush family. It is common in well-wooded areas of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Most populations are resident. The species shows a preference for shady damp areas ...

, ''Geokichla citrina'' * Buru thrush, ''Geokichla dumasi'' * Seram thrush, ''Geokichla joiceyi'' * Orange-sided thrush, ''Geokichla peronii'' *

Slaty-backed thrush The slaty-backed thrush (''Geokichla schistacea'') is a passerine bird in the Asian thrush genus. It is found in the Tanimbar Islands The Tanimbar Islands, also called ''Timur Laut'', are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku provinc ...

, ''Geokichla schistacea'' *

Chestnut-capped thrush The chestnut-capped thrush (''Geokichla interpres'') lives in forests and woodlands of Southeast Asia. It is a songbird species in the family Turdidae. Traditionally, it has included the Enggano thrush as a subspecies, but a recent review recom ...

, ''Geokichla interpres'' *

Enggano thrush The Enggano thrush (''Geokichla leucolaema'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is endemic to rainforests on Enggano Island off Sumatra in Indonesia. It has traditionally been considered a subspecies of the chestnut-capped thrush. ...

, ''Geokichla leucolaema'' *

Chestnut-backed thrush The chestnut-backed thrush (''Geokichla dohertyi'') is a ground thrush species endemic to Lombok, Timor and the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. The species is rapidly declining and it is already extinct on Lombok and possibly on Lesser Sunda. ...

, ''Geokichla dohertyi'' *

Ashy thrush The ashy thrush (''Geokichla cinerea''), also known as the ashy ground-thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is endemic to the Philippines in Luzon and Mindoro. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and or tr ...

, ''Geokichla cinerea'' *

Red-backed thrush The red-backed thrush or rusty-backed thrush (''Geokichla erythronota'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. Traditionally, it included the red-and-black thrush (''Z. mendeni'') as a subspecies. It is endemic to forests on Sulawesi an ...

, ''Geokichla erythronota'' *

Red-and-black thrush The red-and-black thrush (''Geokichla mendeni''), also known as the Peleng thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is endemic to forests on the Indonesian islands of Taliabu and Peleng, where threatened by habitat loss. Traditio ...

, ''Geokichla mendeni''

References

External links

Asian thrush videos
on the Internet Bird Collection {{Taxonbar, from=Q26030 Bird genera Taxa named by Salomon Müller