Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Turdidae > Zoothera > Zoothera mollissimaZoothera mollissima (Plain-backed Thrush; Alpine Thrush)The plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It ranges across the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, primarily the Himalayas, stretching into adjoining parts of Southeast Asia. This name is used when the taxon includes the population that is now separated as a full species called the Himalayan forest thrush (Zoothera salimalii). The species in its narrower sense is now referred to as the alpine thrush. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.58811 EDGE Score: 2.35973 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 96 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 60 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 10 inches (26 cm) |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Central China loess plateau mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Daba Mountains evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical pine forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
China, India, Bhutan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Northern Indochina subtropical forests |
China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
China, Pakistan, India |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Qilian Mountains conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
India, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Ailaoshan Nature Reserve |
V |
332544 |
Yunnan, China |
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Bandhavgarh National Park |
II |
89210 |
Madhya Pradesh, India |
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Buxa Tiger Reserve Sanctuary |
IV |
23685 |
West Bengal, India |
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Chail Sanctuary |
IV |
31333 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve |
V |
1245925 |
Yunnan, China |
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Great Himalayan National Park |
II |
184040 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Kanawar Sanctuary |
IV |
19991 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Nanda Devi National Park |
II |
161583 |
Uttaranchal, India |
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Nargu Sanctuary |
IV |
70769 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve |
V |
567531 |
Yunnan, China |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
No |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Mountains of Southwest China |
China, Myanmar |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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