The thrush is a bird in the passerine family thrush. The total length is about 23cm. Most of the body is tan. The top of the head to the upper back has dark brown longitudinal stripes, and the eye rims are white and extend backward into narrow eyebrow lines. It inhabits the thickets of hills and the thickets or bamboo forests near villages. It is alert and timid.

thrush

Chinese name: Thrush

Species taxonomy: Birds→Passerine→Lidae→Garulidae

Latin name: Garrulax canorus

English name: Hwamei

Genus Chinese name: genus Canorus

Domestic distribution: The domestic distribution is from the south of Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan to the Yangtze River Basin and the vast area to the south, east to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan, west to Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, south to Guangdong, Hong Kong, Guangxi and Hainan Island, the entire southern China and coastal areas.

The scientific name of thrush is Garrulax canorus, and some people call it tiger thrush and golden thrush. Classified in the subfamily Thrushidae of the order Passerine. Its external characteristics are medium-sized birds with a body length of 21-24cm. The upper body is olive brown, the top of the head to the upper back is tan with black longitudinal stripes, the eye rims are white, and a narrow strip is formed along the upper edge and extends back to the occipital side, forming a clear eyebrow line, very eye-catching. Black longitudinal stripes, gray in the middle of the abdomen. The characteristics are obvious, especially through its unique white eyebrow lines, it is not difficult to identify in the wild. The Taiwan subspecies is olive-yellow-brown throughout, densely covered with dark brown fine longitudinal stripes, and its characteristics are also very obvious. (Taiwanese subspecies have no eyebrow lines). Similar species of white-cheeked owls have white cheeks and no white eye circles. The difference is obvious and easy to distinguish in the wild.