Eyebrowed Thrush

The eyebrowed thrush is an attractive thrush with a grey back and head, the head showing a black eyeline bordered white above and below. The breast and flanks are orange and the belly white. The sexes are fairly similar, but immatures have a browner back. The male has a simple whistling song, similar to the related mistle thrush. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds in dense coniferous forest and taiga eastwards from Siberia and Mongolia to Japan, and is strongly migratory, wintering south to China and Southeast Asia. It nests in trees, laying four to six eggs in a neat nest. Migrating and wintering birds often form small flocks. It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms and berries. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe, and has been recorded in Israel and, in 2011, near Malanda in Queensland, Australia. (Wikipedia, general species account)