Description:

Large, dark and uniform colored typical thrush, very similar to commonly found Tibetan Blackbird. Male is entirely black, with yellow bill and eyering, blackish legs. Female is dull dark brown, paler and vaguely brown-mottled below, with buff-brown submoustachial stripe and throat divided by indistinct malar.

Distribution:

Vagrant or rare winter visitor to extreme northwestern parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, mainly Hunza and Ghizer. Inhabits relatively open broadleaf, coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests; also plantations, orchards and farmland with vegetation cover, reaches up to 2700 m.

Behavior:

Forages mainly on ground, by turning leaf litter and uprooting moss with the bill. Listening and watching for prey, then stabbing or digging at ground to secure it. Commonly feeds also in trees and bushes. Mainly feeds on invertebrates, mainly earthworms and insects and their larvae, also fruits and seeds; highly flexible and adaptive.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Eurasian Blackbird in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Eurasian Blackbird

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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