Which is the smallest true thrush normally seen in Britain?
Naumann's thrush female is fairly similar to the male, but immatures have a weaker patterning. The song of Naumann's thrush may differ from the simple fluted or whistling redwing-like song of dusky thrush. The genus name comes from Latin "Turdus", "thrush", and the species and English names commemorate the German naturalist Johann Andreas Naumann. Naumann's thrush Naumann's thrush ("Turdus naumanni") is a member of the thrush family Turdidae which breeds eastwards from central Siberia. It is closely related to the more northerly breeding dusky thrush "T. eunomus"; the two have often been regarded as conspecific. This species breeds in open woodland areas;
True thrush genus "Turdus": True thrush True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. The genus name "Turdus" is Latin for "thrush". The term "thrush" is used for many other birds of the family Turdidae as well as for a number of species belonging to several other families (see Thrush). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Several species have also colonised some oceanic islands, and two species have been introduced to New Zealand. Some New World species are called robins, the