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Bengo | 12:55 Mon 18th Oct 2004 | Animals & Nature
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Whats the common name for 'Turdus Torqatus' please ? It's a blackish thrush.
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ouzel,or ousel

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.

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