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SONG THRUSH
  Bird Call
| Characteristics: |
23 cm long and weighs approx. 68g. All brown back with buff-washed creamy underparts featuring numerous black-brown spots arranged in a lengthwise pattern. Its warm-buff coloured underwings are visible during flight. Male and females have identical colouring. |
| Call: |
A sharp sipp contact call, often given in flight. Its song is quite loud and highly characteristic: short musical phrases are repeated two to four times before the next one begins. Its song therefore comes across as quite rhythmic. The individual musical phrases include mimicries (imitations) of other birds. |
| Habitat: |
The Song Thrush is found in gardens and parks, hedgerows and most types of woodland. It is a summer visitor to Central Europe between the months of February and November but occurs all year round in Britain. |
| Distribution: |
This species is widespread in Central and Northern Europe and Central Asia. |
| Biology: |
Song Thrushes feed on snails, worms, inspects and spiders and in autumn on fruits and berries. They nest in bushes, hedges and trees (close to the trunk). They build a strong nest made up of woven grass and plant matter, the cup is lined with a smooth finish of dried mud. The female lays between 4 and 6 light blue to turquoise coloured eggs that are lightly spotted with black. Clutches from April; 2 broods a year.
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