'Thrushes' are generally larger than chats, often spotted underneath, but in some species, males are unspotted and clearly different from females. A few stray far to the east every year in fall and winter, some reaching New England.Migrates relatively late in fall and early in spring.
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Generally, thrushes are slender-billed songbirds with the tarsus (lower leg) “booted”—i.e., covered in front with a single long scale instead of many short ones. Thrushes are widely considered closely related to the Old World warblers (Sylviidae) and flycatchers (Muscicapidae), with which they intergrade through several genera. Feeds on many insects, especially in summer, including beetles, ants, caterpillars, crickets, and many others; also eats many millipedes, sowbugs, snails, earthworms, spiders, other invertebrates.
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Check out thrush bird symbolism to get the full meaning of this great bird. The male's clear, flute-like song echoes through the forest in spring and early summer, and both sexes make distinctive, machine-gun-like alarm notes. Nest: Usually placed in conifer, at base of branches against trunk, 5-15' above the ground.
Numbers present in southern wintering areas quite variable from year to year.
Forages for ground-dwelling insects by removing leaf litter and probing the forest floor. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Development of young and age at which they leave the nest are not well known. There is a big symbolic lesson in this for us.
Hylocichla mustelina Seemingly not as shy as the other brown thrushes, not as bold as the Robin, the Wood Thrush seems intermediate between those two related groups. A few stray far to the east every year in fall and winter, some reaching New England.Audubon’s scientists have used 140 million bird observations and sophisticated climate models to project how climate change will affect this bird’s range in the future.Zoom in to see how this species’s current range will shift, expand, and contract under increased global temperatures.Choose a temperature scenario below to see which threats will affect this species as warming increases. The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Sings a flutelike clear song from understory and canopy perches.
The sexes are similar, with plain brown backs and neatly black-spotted cream or yellow-buff underparts, becoming paler on the belly.
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It likes to eat snails which it breaks into by smashing them against a stone with a flick of the head. Male sings in spring to defend territory, singing most frequently at dawn and dusk and after a rain.
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Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguish it from singing blackbirds. Then, there are the two most northern species, the Gray-cheeked Thrush, who has a range across all of northern Canada and the Varied Thrush, with a range from Alaska into the southern Rockies.
There are many thrushes worldwide. The young are usually spotted in the first plumage, and there is a single annual molt.Thrushes vary from 13 to 30 cm (5 to 12 inches) in length.
Sites vary: Occasionally much higher; especially in far north, may nest very low in deciduous thickets or on the ground.