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Grey-backed Thrush
Turdus hortulorum Sclater, PL, 1863
Turdidae — Thrushes
Grey-backed Thrush, Turdus hortulorum, is a passerine that breeds in se Russia and ne China and moves to se Asia outside the breeding season. It was described by Sclater, PL, 1863, and belongs to the thrush family, Turdidae. Its breeding grounds are in the Palearctic. It is associated with temperate forests, especially deciduous and evergreen woodland on rolling ground. A captive-bred pair produced five eggs, with the first chick hatching 14 days after the first egg was laid, and the young leaving the nest 12 days after that.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae — Thrushes
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: se Russia and ne China
- Nonbreeding range
- se Asia
