See text Turdus is a genus of medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the wider thrush family, Turdidae.

Plumage is far more variable; the only fully shared character is that the recently fledged juveniles are spotted on the breast and streaked on the back.

Some show sexual dimorphism with the males brighter or more intensely coloured than the often browner females, while in others, the sexes are identical in plumage.

[2] While some species have been split out of Turdus, the thrushes formerly separated in the genera Cataponera, Cichlherminia, Nesocichla, Platycichla and Psophocichla by various authors have been restored to the present genus in recent years.

[3] The genus Turdus was formally named by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.