Grey-winged Blackbird

Turdus boulboul (Latham, 1790)

Grey-winged Blackbird, Turdus boulboul, is a thrush of the Himalayas to northern Vietnam in the Oriental Region. It is a bird of the mountains of southern and eastern Asia, where it occurs in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest at middle elevations. Its plumage is strongly different between the sexes. Males are black with a broad grey area on the wing feathers, while females are plain brown with only a slight paler wing panel. The bill and eye ring also differ between the sexes, being yellow in males and duller in females.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Turdidae — Thrushes

Breeding range

Oriental Region: Himalayas to n Vietnam