Eyebrowed Thrush

The eyebrowed thrush is an attractive thrush with a grey back and head, a black line through the eye bordered white above and below, orange breast and flanks and a white belly. The sexes are fairly similar, and immatures have browner backs. The male has a simple whistling song like the related mistle thrush's (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in dense coniferous forest and taiga from Siberia and Mongolia east to Japan, nesting in trees and laying four to six eggs, and is strongly migratory, wintering south to China and South-east Asia. Migrating and wintering birds often form small flocks. It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms and berries. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe (Wikipedia, general species account).