Tickell’s Thrush searches forest floors for food and makes partial seasonal movements in elevation and range.
The male has a bluish-gray head and upperparts, a pale underside, and a yellow bill and eye-ring in breeding plumage. The brown female has a pale eyebrow and streaking on the chest.
It walks and probes soft ground or leaf litter for earthworms and insects, and also eats fruit and berries. It leaves its breeding grounds as the first snows arrive and spends winter at lower elevations or in nearby regions.
It breeds from April to August, building a cup-shaped nest in a tree or shrub. It usually lays 3–4 eggs; the female incubates for 13–14 days, and both parents feed the chicks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.