Tickell's Thrush

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Tickell's Thrush | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Passeriformes | familia = Turdidae | genus = Turdus | species = T. unicolor | binomial = Turdus unicolor | binomial_authority = Tickell, 1833 }}

The Tickell's Thrush (Turdus unicolor) is a passerine bird in the thrush family Turdidae.

It is common in open forest in the Himalaya. Populations move further south in India in winter.

Tickell's Thrushes are omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms and berries. They nest in bushes or similar. They do not form flocks.

Males of this small thrush have uniform blue-grey upperparts, and a whitish belly and vent. Females and young birds have browner upperparts.