#0841 · 🐦 birds

Black-throated Thrush

🇳🇱 Zwartkeellijster ·Turdus atrogularis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The black-throated thrush ( Turdus atrogularis ) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", red-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species.

base stats

NL sightings 12iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,701iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 12 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
3,701 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Feliks Paweł Jarocki in 1819 (207 years ago).

fact sheet

English: Black-throated Thrush
Nederlands: Zwartkeellijster
scientific name: Turdus atrogularis
class: Aves
order: Passeriformes
family: Turdidae
IUCN Red List: LC · least concern
sightings in NL: 12
sightings in Europe: 98
sightings worldwide: 3,701
GBIF records in NL: 2,750
weight: —
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1819 by Feliks Paweł Jarocki

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Turdidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 145086, Wikidata Q80780, GBIF 4408790, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.