Females and immatures are similar but the black on the throat and breast is replaced with dusky streaking.

[2] Black-throated thrushes breed along the edges of clearings in coniferous or mixed deciduous forest, often in the undergrowth of Siberian Pine Pinus sibirica or mixed spruce fir forest, especially along watercourses or in swampy areas.

[2] The breeding range of the black-throated thrush extends from the extreme east of Europe to Western Siberia and north-west Mongolia.

The wintering range extends from the Middle East, although uncommon in the Arabian Peninsula to eastern Myanmar.

Turdus is "thrush" and the specific atrogularis is derived from ater, "black", and gula, "throat".