Grey-winged Blackbird
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0

Thrushes and Allies

Grey-winged Blackbird

Turdus boulboul

LCLeast Concern
Family
Thrushes and Allies (Turdidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The grey-winged blackbird (Turdus boulboul) is a species of Turdus in the thrush family, found at in the mountains of southern and eastern Asia from the Himalayas to northern Vietnam. Its natural habitat is in the middle altitudes of subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, mostly at 1800–2700 m altitude, but occasionally down to 1200 m in winter, and as high as 3300 m in summer.
It is a large thrush, 28–29 cm long and 88–111 g weight, with distinct sexual dimorphism in plumage. The males are black with faint pale fringes on the belly, and a broad grey patch on the wing covert, secondary, and tertial feathers, somewhat reminiscent of a ring ouzel but more uniformly grey.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Himalayas of western Pakistan to northern Myanmar, southern China, and northern southeastern Asia.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.