page_title: List of birds of Kentucky
section_title: Thrushes and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Kentucky / Thrushes and allies
caption_attribution_description: Carondelet Park in St. Louis City on 5/2/13
context_page_description: This list of birds of Kentucky includes species documented in the U.S. state of Kentucky by the Kentucky Bird Records Committee of the Kentucky Ornithological Society through December 2017. Three additional species have been accepted by the KBRC but not yet added to the published list, and one more species has been documented but not yet assessed by the KBRC. Of these 391 species, 101 are classed as accidental and six were introduced to North America. Four are extinct and three have been extirpated. An additional nine species are hypothetical as defined below. Birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following tags are used to designate some species:
  Accidental - A species on the Kentucky review list, for which the KOS requires documentation
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Turdidae
  The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Nine species have been recorded in Kentucky.
  Eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis
  Mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides (A)
  Veery, Catharus fuscescens
  Gray-cheeked thrush, Catharus minimus
  Swainson's thrush, Catharus ustulatus
  Hermit thrush, Catharus guttatus
  Wood thrush, Hylocichla mustelina
  American robin, Turdus migratorius
  Varied thrush, Ixoreus naevius (A)
caption: Veery
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