Black-throated Thrush

The black-throated thrush is a large, distinctive migratory thrush of the Eastern Palearctic. The male has black from the chin to the breast, a greyish-black tail, grey upperparts and whitish underparts with orange-red underwing coverts, while females and immatures have dusky streaking in place of black. It breeds along the edges of clearings in coniferous or mixed forest, often in Siberian pine or spruce-fir forest by watercourses or swampy areas (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds solitarily or in loose groups in late May to late July, making a nest of grasses and twigs bound with earth within about 2 m of the ground. In winter it often flocks with other thrushes and roosts in dense evergreen vegetation.