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title: "Drozd kurylski"
description: "Turdus chrysolaus — Ptaki. The brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus), sometimes known as the brown thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/brown-headed-thrush
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Drozd kurylski

> Turdus chrysolaus — Ptaki. The brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus), sometimes known as the brown thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.

- Scientific name: *Turdus chrysolaus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 2151
- Wikidata: [Q1589003](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1589003)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12741](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12741)

## Names

- en: Brown-headed Thrush
- de: Rotkopfdrossel
- es: Zorzal cabecipardo
- fr: Merle à flancs roux
- nl: Japanse lijster
- pl: Drozd kurylski

## Countries with the most observations

TW (920), JP (310), RU (194), KR (43), HK (36), CN (25), PH (20)

## Summary

The brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus), sometimes known as the brown thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It breeds in Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Japan; it winters in south toward the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Hainan and the northern Philippines. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

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

## Photo

![Drozd kurylski](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-headed-thrush/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149135086

## Machine access

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