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title: "Roodkeellijster"
description: "Turdus ruficollis — Vogels. The red-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/red-throated-thrush
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Roodkeellijster

> Turdus ruficollis — Vogels. The red-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family.

- Scientific name: *Turdus ruficollis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 1043
- Wikidata: [Q220985](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220985)
- iNaturalist taxon: [203819](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/203819)

## Names

- en: Red-throated Thrush
- de: Bechsteindrossel
- es: Zorzal Papirrojo
- fr: Grive à gorge rousse
- nl: Roodkeellijster
- pl: Drozd rdzawogardły

## Countries with the most observations

RU (439), CN (336), MN (65), IN (20), HK (19), BT (15), NP (12), KR (8), TW (6), BD (4), MM (3), PH (3)

## Summary

The red-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", black-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species. The scientific name comes from Latin. Turdus is "thrush" and the specific ruficollis is derived from rufus, "red", and collum, "neck".
The red-throated thrush is a migratory Palearctic species. It breeds in East Siberia to North Manchuria wintering to West China, Myanmar, and Northeast India. Its range overlaps with the more westerly…

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

## Photo

![Roodkeellijster](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-throated-thrush/medium.jpg)

Photo: Сергей · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/353527043

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-throated-thrush?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).