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Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius phillipensis
Choshi, Chiba, Japan. January 2006 and 2008
 
The Blue Rock Thrush is found from southern Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East right across Asia into China and Japan. It is found mainly along rocky coastlines and cliffs, in mountain valleys and in large ruined buildings.

Males of forms in the […]

Hermit Thrushes Catharus guttatus
Central Park, New York, 18 April 2006.
 
Hermit Thrushes breed from southern Alaska across Canada to Newfoundland, south to California in the west and Maryland in the east. Typically they are the only Catharus species seen in the US during winter, and are the first to return north.

According to Sibley (”The North American […]