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Song Thrush - Turdus philomelos
A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers are declining seriously, especially on farmland making it a Red List species. It is smaller and browner than a Mistle Thrush with smaller spotting. Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguishes it from singing Blackbirds.
Woods, hedgerows, parks and gardens across the UK - wherever there are bushes and trees
All year round
It likes to eat snails, which it breaks into by smashing them against a stone, referred to as its anvil, with a flick of the head.
Common and widespread
A common breeding bird in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Species profile
- Common names
- Song Thrush
- Species group:
- Birds
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Passeriformes
- Family:
- Turdidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 902
- First record:
- 01/12/1996 (Ian Retson)
- Last record:
- 22/04/2024 (Messenger, Nigel)
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