Thrushes

[Bengo]

Whats the common name for 'Turdus Torqatus' please ? It's a blackish thrush.

[daithebus]

ouzel,or ousel

[New Forester]

Turdus torquatus is the ring ouzel.  It's blackish, as you say, very like a blackbird, but with a white collar.  It lives in mountain areas, migrating southwards in winter.

 

I think ouzel means "collared", and the word is also used for the unrelated dipper or water ouzel, Cinclus cinclus.

 

Last week I was apparently a hundred metres or less from a migrating ring ouzel, but sadly I didn't find it.