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The eyebrowed thrush is a small, attractive thrush that looks like a pale American robin. The adult male has brown upperparts, and grey underparts with an orange belly and flanks. The head is dark grey with white stripes above and below the eye which give it an elegant appearance. It has a yellow bill with a dark culmen, and pinkish-brown legs and feet. The female is browner overall with faded orange on the underparts.
It has a rich warbling mournful song interspersed with whistles and lower twittering. In flight it produces a thin, high-pitched sound and flies fast on rapidly beating wings. During migration and winter it will form small flocks with other thrushes.
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Eyebrowed thrushes eat insects, worms, snails, berries, and fruit which it forages from trees and on the ground. On the ground it hops and runs, pausing to check and pick up food while in trees it will glean from branches and foliage.
Eyebrowed thrushes breed in dense, coniferous forests or mixed woodland in east Asia. It spends the winter in south and south east Asia to Indonesia.
