Grey-winged Blackbird

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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 1,800–2,700 m (5,900–8,900 ft) altitude, but occasionally down to 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in winter, and as high as 3,300 m (10,800 ft) in summer.

It is a large thrush, 28–29 cm (11.0–11.4 in) long and 88–111 g (3.1–3.9 oz) 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. The females are a plain brown, with only a hint of paler brown on the wings where the males have their grey patch. The bill is bright yellow in males, dull yellow to brownish in females. Both sexes also have a narrow eye ring, yellow in males and greyish in females.

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Identity & source status

Scientific name

Turdus boulboul (Latham, 1790)

Name authority

(Latham, 1790)

Common name

Grey-winged Blackbird

Rank

species

Accepted status

accepted

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Turdidae

Genus

Turdus

Extinction status

Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
2. kingdomAnimalia
3. phylumChordata
4. subphylumVertebrata
5. infraphylumGnathostomata
6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
7. megaclassTetrapoda
8. classAves
9. orderPasseriformes
10. familyTurdidae Rafinesque, 1815
11. genusTurdus Linnaeus, 1758
12. speciesTurdus boulboul (Latham, 1790)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Turdus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

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Names & synonyms

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Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Source literature & publication evidence

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1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=563569 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:59PL5. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.