Thrushes in Montana
Our list for Montana has 8 thrushes recorded regularly there: 7 summer visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Montana 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 visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusSummer visitorUncommon14–18 cmRegularly May–Nov
VeeryCatharus fuscescensSummer visitorUncommon16–19 cmRegularly May–Aug
Varied ThrushIxoreus naeviusSummer visitorUncommon20–26 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisSummer visitorRare16–21 cmRegularly May–Sep
Gray-cheeked ThrushCatharus minimusPassage migrantRare16–17 cmRegularly May–Sep
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