11 September 2023
Whilst on how you can elsewhere I discovered the bluest thrush.
In keeping with Birds of the International, the grandala (Grandala coelicolor) is a gregarious thrush that makes a vertical migration within the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau(*) from barren alpine breeding grounds at 3900–5500 m (12,800-18,000 feet) to rocky mountainside valleys and ridges at 3000–4300 m (9,800-14,000 feet), from time to time as little as 2000 m (6,500 feet).
To position this in point of view, if grandalas lived within the U.S they may best breed on Denali (20,000 feet) or the easiest Rocky Mountains. A few of them by no means come down as little as the easiest level the Rockies, the height of Mount Elder.
Grandalas are the similar dimension as wooden thrushes and just like the wooden thrush are the one species of their genus, however there the similarity ends. For example, grandalas are sexually dimorphic with royal blue men and brownish-gray ladies.
Grandalas have flexible diets tuned to their chilly local weather lives. They consume bugs in summer season and fruit in fall and iciness.
Like cedar waxwings grandalas trip in large flocks in fall and iciness. Once they perch they flick their wings and tails.
Watch the bluest thrush on this 4:45 minute video by means of RoundGlass Maintain.
(*) Grandalas happen at prime altitudes in those international locations/territories: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, China, northern Myanmar.
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