Thrushes in Alberta
Our list for Alberta has 8 thrushes recorded regularly there: 6 summer visitors, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Alberta in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 8, most common first
American RobinTurdus migratoriusSummer visitorCommon20–28 cmRecorded all year
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Sep
Mountain BluebirdSialia currucoidesSummer visitorUncommon15–18 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusSummer visitorUncommon14–18 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
VeeryCatharus fuscescensSummer visitorUncommon16–19 cmRegularly May–Aug
Varied ThrushIxoreus naeviusSummer visitorUncommon20–26 cmRecorded all year
Gray-cheeked ThrushCatharus minimusPassage migrantRare16–17 cmRegularly May–Oct
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisScarceRare16–21 cmRegularly Jun
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made