Male Varied Thrushes have striking blue-gray and orange markings, while females and young birds are browner. The species breeds in Pacific Coast forests and changes its diet with the seasons.
Males have a blue-gray back, orange breast and belly, and a dark breast band. Females and young birds are browner overall but retain orange on the breast and wings.
It breeds in humid evergreen and mixed forests along the Pacific Coast. It eats insects in summer and more nuts and fruit from fall through winter, and also uses parks and gardens in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.