White's Thrush

White's thrush is a relatively large thrush, about 27–31 centimetres long. The plumage is light olive-brown on the back, yellowish to white towards the belly, with heavy black scaly markings all over. The upper wing is mottled black and beige and the underside mostly white with a marked black band from the armpit to the wrist. It differs from the closely related scaly thrush in being larger, with more pointed wings and 14 instead of twelve tail feathers, and in a different song; it is also more golden-yellow in tone, where the scaly thrush is more reddish-brown. (Swedish Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds in the taiga from the Ural Mountains east to Japan and moves in winter to Southeast Asia. In Russia it breeds in dark coniferous and mixed forest, usually spruce along river valleys, in wooded steppe and in open forest of larch, birch and aspen. The large cup nest of moss, grass, twigs and roots is placed one to six metres up in a tree fork, bush or earth bank, with three to five eggs. It is very rare west of its range, with six records in Sweden for example. (Swedish Wikipedia, general species account)