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A Dark-throated Thrush (Turdus ruficollis) investigates a hollow in an old Maple tree-trunk in Landour, Mussoorie. It must have found larvae or grubs therein... Shortly after, a Scaly-bellied Woodpecker and a Chestnut-bellied Ground Thrush also joined the party and poked their beaks into the same tree cavity. On this particular occasion, on 26th March 2014, there were over 200 such Dark-throated Thrushes in the same ravine, at the Wilderness Orchard in Landour. The Red-throated Thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "Dark-throated Thrush", Black-throated Thrush then being the other subspecies. More recent treatments regard the two as separate species. The Red-throated Thrush is a migratory Asia
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