English > family Turdidae: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | thrushes; in some classifications considered a subfamily (Turdinae) of the family Muscicapidae. |
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Synonym | Turdidae |
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Member of | Oscines, suborder Oscines, Passeres, suborder Passeres | Two names for the suborder of typical songbirds |
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Members | Erithacus, genus Erithacus | Old World thrushes |
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Hylocichla, genus Hylocichla | (American thrush) wood thrush |
Luscinia, genus Luscinia | nightingales |
Myadestes, genus Myadestes | solitaires |
Oenanthe, genus Oenanthe | wheatears |
Phoenicurus, genus Phoenicurus | Old World thrushes |
Saxicola, genus Saxicola | Old World chats |
Turdus, genus Turdus | type genus of the Turdidae |
thrush | songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast |
Broader | bird family | A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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Spanish | túrdidos |
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Catalan | Turdidae, túrdids |
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