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title: "Gray-winged Blackbird"
description: "Turdus boulboul — Uccelli. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/gray-winged-blackbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gray-winged Blackbird

> Turdus boulboul — Uccelli. 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.

- Scientific name: *Turdus boulboul*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 851
- Wikidata: [Q773961](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q773961)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12734](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12734)

## Names

- en: Gray-winged Blackbird
- de: Bülbülamsel
- es: Tordo aligrís
- fr: Merle à ailes grises
- nl: Grijsvleugelmerel
- pl: Drozd jasnoskrzydły

## Countries with the most observations

IN (518), CN (116), NP (48), BT (38), TH (25), PK (18), MM (5), BD (3), MN (3)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-winged_blackbird

## Photo

![Gray-winged Blackbird](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-winged-blackbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: steve b · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/288656578

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-winged-blackbird?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).