The Chinese thrush (''Turdus mupinensis'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and far northern Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. A recent molecular study places the Chinese thrush's closest relatives as the similarly plumaged European species, the

song thrush The song thrush (''Turdus philomelos'') is a Thrush (bird), thrush that breeds across the West Palearctic. It has brown upper-parts and black-spotted cream or buff underparts and has three recognised subspecies. Its distinctive Birdsong, song, ...

(''T. philomelos'') and the

mistle thrush The mistle thrush (''Turdus viscivorus'') is a bird common to much of Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa. It is a year-round resident in a large part of its range, but northern and eastern populations migrate south for the winter, often ...

(''T. viscivorus''), all three species early offshoots from the main ''Turdus'' radiation around the world.

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Chinese thrush The Chinese thrush (''Turdus mupinensis'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in China and far northern Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosy ...

Chinese thrush Birds of China Chinese thrush Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Turdidae-stub