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Thrushes are small to medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds of the family Turdidae, which also includes the chats, wheatears and redstarts.
In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the thrushes form a sub-family Turdinini.
Members of the family include:
- 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
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Small Eurasian Turdidae are commonly known as chats.