Eastern European Russia and southern Siberia east to northern Mongolia and Sea of Okhotsk. Non-breeding southern and south-eastern China, Taiwan, mainland south-eastern Asia, northern and western Philippines.
 
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 19,999 (2010) and decreasing.
White's Thrush (Zoothera aurea) [XC317453]
by Yann Muzika from Tokyo (near Ogasawara-mura), T\u014dky\u014d-to, Russian Federation (call, song, call-song)
White's Thrush (Zoothera aurea) [XC268117]
by Albert Lastukhin from Mikhaylovskiy rayon, Primorskiy kray, Russian Federation (song)
Subspecies
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Scaly Thrush (Zoothera dauma).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
aurea (Holandre, 1825) - Eastern European Russia and southern Siberia east to northern Mongolia and Sea of Okhotsk. Non-breeding southern and south-eastern China, Taiwan, mainland south-eastern Asia, northern and western Philippines.
toratugumi (Momiyama, 1940) - Russian Far East (Amurland) and Sakhalin south to Korea, Japan and southern Kuril Is. Non-breeding mainly eastern China and Taiwan.