Male (Indian) © Mohammed Sayeer eBird S48798608 Macaulay Library ML 116590231
Male (Black-capped) © Ramesh Shenai
Male (Sri Lanka) © Tommy Pedersen
Female (Indian) © Renuka Vijayaraghavan
Female (Black-capped) © Dhanapal Kondasamy
+ 5
Male (Indian) © Amara Bharathy
Male (Black-capped) © Savio Fonseca (www.avocet-peregrine.com)
Juvenile (Indian) © Rajinikanth Kasthuri
Male (Indian) © Ashwin Viswanathan

Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

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Identification

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Dark thrush with a bright orange bill. Male is slightly darker than the female. Plumage varies slightly throughout range, Sri Lanka birds being midnight-black and central Indian “Black-capped” birds being brown with a black head and wings. Note the small teardrop-shaped patch of bare orange skin around the eye. Beautiful fluting song often heard from foothill forests, forest edge, and orchards; winters at lower altitudes, often in closer proximity to people, though typically not in outright urban areas like Chinese and Eurasian Blackbirds.

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