The Long-tailed Thrush has an olive-brown back and whitish underparts marked with black scales. It spends summer in high forest and descends to lower elevations in winter.
Its upperparts are olive-brown and its whitish underparts have black scale-like markings. A cream wing patch is visible in flight.
It spends much time on the floor of thick evergreen forest, then descends to lower, more open country in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.