Bougainville thrush
Zoothera atrigena Ripley & Hadden, 1982
The bougainville thrush (Zoothera atrigena) is a species in the family Turdidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh about 65.3 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Near Threatened.
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Quick facts about the bougainville thrush
- Weight
- 65.3 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Lifestyle
- Generalistsrc for Lifestyle
- Migration
- Partialsrc for Migration
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
Where does the bougainville thrush live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The bougainville thrush is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
What is the bougainville thrush?
The Bougainville thrush (Zoothera atrigena) is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is found in the montane forests of Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands Archipelago.
It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the New Britain thrush with the combined taxa known as the black-backed thrush.
From the Wikipedia article “Bougainville thrush” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bougainville_thrush&oldid=1380596708), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.
Is the bougainville thrush endangered?
The bougainville thrush is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List: it is close to qualifying as threatened.
- LCLeast Concern
- NTNear Threatened
- VUVulnerable
- ENEndangered
- CRCritically Endangered
- EWExtinct in the Wild
- EXExtinct
Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Near Threatened species. What the categories mean.
How is the bougainville thrush classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyTurdidae
- genusZoothera
- SpeciesZoothera atrigena Ripley & Hadden, 1982
Synonyms Zoothera margaretae atrigena, Zoothera talaseae atrigena
Other names and names in other languages (20)
- BougainvilleerddrosselGerman
- Bougainville-ErddrosselGerman
- nigradorsa turdoEsperanto
- Zorzal de BougainvilleSpanish
- Zorzal de BouganinvilleSpanish
- Grive de BougainvilleFrench
- ljuskastoboki drozdCroatian
- ブーゲンビルツグミJapanese
- svartryggtrostNorwegian Bokmål
- BougainvillegoudlijsterDutch
- drozdoń czarniawyPolish
- tordo-da-bougainvillePortuguese
- tordo-de-bougainvillePortuguese
- drozd bougainvillskýSlovak
- Drozd sa Solomonskih ostrvaSerbian
- svartryggig trastSwedish
- Bogenvil ArdıcıTurkish
- квічаль бугенвільськийUkrainian
- 布岛地鸫Chinese
- 布干維爾地鶇Chinese
Relatives of the bougainville thrush
Other species in the same genus Zoothera.
Scaly thrush
Zoothera dauma
White's thrush
Zoothera aurea
Long-tailed thrush
Zoothera dixoni
Dark-sided thrush
Zoothera marginata
Sunda thrush
Zoothera andromedae
Alpine thrush
Zoothera mollissima
CompareBougainville thrush vs Scaly thrushBougainville thrush vs White's thrushBougainville thrush vs Long-tailed thrushBougainville thrush vs Dark-sided thrush
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the bougainville thrush?
An adult bougainville thrush weighs 65.3 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the bougainville thrush live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the bougainville thrush for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the bougainville thrush endangered?
The bougainville thrush is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is close to qualifying as threatened.
What kind of animal is the bougainville thrush?
The bougainville thrush (Zoothera atrigena) belongs to the family Turdidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
- AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service). - Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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