TURDINAE 

ORANGE-HEADED THRUSH

Location : Taiping Perak
Date :  10 December 2021

20.5–23.5 cm Male innotata (NW Thailand to N Laos, S Indochina; winters to Pen Malaysia): Orange head/below, bluish-grey above.Female: Duller; greyish-olive above.Juvenile: Dark above, ear-covert bars, streaked/scaled.Male aurimacula (north Indochina, C Annam): White median covert tips, dark ear-bars (both sexes). Other subspecies Z.c.citrina (B western and northern Myanmar)/gibsonhilli (B southern and eastern Myanmar, W Thailand; VS south to Pen Malaysia): White median covert tips. VOICE Sings with varied sweet rich musical notes. Low tjuck and thin tsee or tzzeet. HABITAT Broadleaved evergreen forest; thickets (mainly migrants); up to 1,525 m. RANGE Un R SW,W,S Myanmar, Tenasserim, W Thailand, Cambodia, C,S Annam. Un BV N Myanmar, NW,NE(north-west) Thailand. Un WV W,NE,S Thailand, Pen Malaysia, Cochinchina; S Myanmar? Also PM S Myanmar, C,S Thailand, Pen Malaysia. Rc (status?) C,E Myanmar, SE Thailand, Laos, E Tonkin, N Annam. V Singapore.