Turdidae

Turdidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Division: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae
Genera
many

The family Turdidae is a group of passerine birds which occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World. There are about 300 species.

They are plump, soft plumaged small to medium sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs.

This large family is now regularly split into two groups, the Turdini and the Saxicolini, which are sometimes given family status. The Saxicolini are sometimes placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

The Turdini is the thrushs, and includes:

• true thrushes:
  • Turdus
• Asian thrushes:
  • Zoothera
• American thrushes
  • Catharus
  • Hylocichla
• rock thrushes
  • Pseudocossyphus
  • Monticola
• flycatcher-thrushes and ant-thrushes[?]
  • Neocossyphus
• whistling-thrushes
  • Myophonus
• Geomalia[?], Geomalia heinrichi
• Sulawesi Thrush[?], Cataponera turdoides
• Tristan Thrush[?], Nesocichla eremita
• Forest Thrush[?], Cichlherminia lherminieri
• bluebirds
  • Sialia
• solitaires, including Kamao, Olomao, Omao, and Puaiohi
  • Myadestes
  • Entomodestes
• Pale-eyed Thrush[?], Platycichla leucops
• Yellow-legged Thrush[?], Platycichla flavipes
• Groundscraper Thrush[?], Psophocichla litsipsirupa
• Varied Thrush[?], Ixoreus naevius
• Aztec Thrush[?], Ridgwayia pinicola
• Fruit-hunter[?], Chlamydochaera jefferyi
• shortwings
  • Brachypteryx
  • Heinrichia
• rock-jumpers
  • Chaetops
• alethes
  • Alethe

The Saxicolini is mainly small Old World species, including:

• chats
  • Luscinia
  • Tarsiger
  • Irania
  • Cinclidium
  • Pogonocichla
  • Swynnertonia
  • Stiphrornis
  • Namibornis
  • Saxicoloides
  • Grandala
  • Xenocopsychus
• wheatears
  • Oenanthe
• redstarts.
  • Phoenicurus
• akalats
  • Sheppardia
• robin-chats
  • Cossyphicula
• palm-thrushes
  • Cichladusa
• scrub-robins
  • Cercotrichas
• magpie-robins and sharmas
  • Copsychus
  • Trichixos
• forktails
  • Enicurus
• cochoas
  • Cochoa