Like a number of other passerines in both the Old and New Worlds, Catharus thrushes are nocturnal migrants. |
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Other species, such as thrushes and manakins, usually regurgitate the largest seeds they ingest. |
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Like the other spot-breasted thrushes, the Hermit Thrush eats a combination of insects and berries. |
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Redwing are among the least robust of thrushes and vulnerable to mass mortality when overcome by cold spells. |
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Like other species of thrushes, Varied Thrushes eat a combination of insects and berries, shifting seasonally. |
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Fieldfare and redwings feed on the mounds of apples, Blackbirds and thrushes turn over the compost heap. |
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Of the three Washington thrushes, the Veery has the palest flanks and is the most faintly spotted. |
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Eggs were bought for threepence a dozen by the Temuka Roads Board for sparrows, thrushes and blackbirds. |
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It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner. |
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The thrushes, a family that includes the American robin and the Eastern bluebird, are known for their vocal skill. |
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In mid-November we had two hermit thrushes using our bird bath and even coming to the suet. |
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Because he is eager to welcome thrushes and waxwings to his yard, he is adding berries to one area. |
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Female plants produce berries that sustain birds including cedar waxwings, finches, mockingbirds, thrushes, and woodpeckers. |
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Other birds to benefit nationally include song thrushes, red kites, skylarks and nightjars. |
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Small square cages are used for canaries, while thrushes are given larger round cages. |
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His research included classic works on quail, bushtits, Mexican and South American thrushes, New World jays, and others. |
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Migrating from northern Europe to the Iberian Peninsula's cork forests are blackcaps, finches, robins, and song thrushes. |
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Smaller birds such as pigeons, thrushes, jackdaws, robins and sparrows would also have been seen on a regular basis. |
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Many small songbirds such as warblers, thrushes, and tanagers migrate at night. |
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If it is dense enough, shrubbery can provide a home to ground-nesting birds such as doves and thrushes as well as small mammals like rabbits. |
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A few years ago, a family of mistle thrushes looking for somewhere to live chose the corner of a factory fire escape in Trafford Park. |
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The clearing of undergrowth for trek paths and human interference had badly affected the thrushes, babblers, warblers and bulbuls in this region. |
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Morphologically, babblers differ from thrushes and flycatchers by the lack of distinct juvenal plumage. |
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Sadly, song thrushes, one of the finest wild songsters, dropped this year after a slight increase in recent years. |
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The thrushes are soberly clothed, omnivorous birds, and occur in all regions of the world save New Zealand. |
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This fracturing allows birds of the forest edge, such as cowbirds and blue jays, to parasitize and prey upon the thrushes. |
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If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish. |
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Sunset is more than a thing of beauty for Swainson's thrushes and gray-cheeked thrushes. |
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Blackbirds and thrushes along with plover and field-fare should be about in numbers. |
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Grouse, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers enjoy the clusters of scarlet fall berries, which remain on the tree all winter if not eaten. |
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits. |
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Monongahela includes Cranberry Glades, where you'll find Swainson's and hermit thrushes, mourning warbler, northern waterthrush, and swamp sparrow. |
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It was a rich source of food for many insects and the berries are eaten by a number of birds, including thrushes, fieldfares and waxwings, which are themselves in decline. |
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks. |
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The fruits are red, blue, or black and are quickly consumed in late summer and early fall by finches, game birds, mockingbirds, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers. |
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As dawn breaks on a misty Welsh morning, the earliest birds to break into song are likely to include European robins, followed by blackbirds and song thrushes. |
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This led the researchers to conclude that the thrushes used cues from the setting sun to update their internal magnetic compass and get back on the right track. |
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Cochran et al. have shown that Catharus thrushes calibrate their magnetic compass on a daily basis using twilight cues, apparently just the reverse of what homing pigeons do. |
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All around the greedy jackjaws, blackbirds, thrushes and magpies eye the ripening fruit and at the exact moment that the fruit ripens they pounce leaving nothing but pips. |
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Because of this diversity of tree species, migratory songbirds such as scarlet tanagers, hermit thrushes, and chestnut-sided warblers return to nest there each spring. |
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However, many small songbirds such as robins, thrushes, flycatchers and warblers migrate mainly during darkness, probably to avoid predators and to keep cool. |
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common. |
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As many of you already know, cowbirds parasitize other, smaller birds by laying their eggs in other birds' nests, often those of thrushes, sparrows or warblers. |
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Robins, hummingbirds, catbirds, thrushes and even a grouse or two, usually not attracted by seed feeders, are drawn to this water in our backyard garden. |
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes. |
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Nonetheless, the West Indian thrashers and tremblers are so distinctive that early workers grouped them variously with the ant thrushes, ovenbirds, wrens, and thrushes. |
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Prior to biotelemetry, the migration energetics of Swainson's thrushes and other small passerines could not be measured directly and had to be estimated. |
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New World Catharus thrushes are common nocturnal migrants amenable to biotelemetry, allowing us to measure physiological parameters during migratory flight in the wild. |
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The wood and hermit thrushes and their cousin the veery have taken a severe hit from the cowbirds, so that they are on the brink of becoming endangered species. |
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Through gruesomely efficient methods of mist-netting and bird-liming, Japanese hunters delivered huge catches of thrushes, grosbeaks, finches, siskins, and buntings. |
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For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground. |
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The hermit thrushes start singing again now for some reason. |
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The fruit are eaten by a range of birds, including thrushes, blackcaps, and woodpigeons. |
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Although many of the temperate-zone thrushes have been well studied, little is known about most Neotropical thrushes. |
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Some birds, such as hermit thrushes, subsist on wild fruit like sumac and poison ivy. |
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And young song thrushes were seen in five per cent of Merseyside gardens, an increase of almost a third. |
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Wildlife experts say the weather appears to have hit the chicks of thrush species such as blackbirds, song thrushes and robins. |
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Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes. |
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Bluebirds, hermit thrushes, and American robins are often found in grape arbors, sumac patches, or other places where wild fruits are located. |
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Try to spot the first of the fluffy blackbird fledglings, and keep an eye out for declining species such as house martins and song thrushes. |
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It is also the only region in England to see a rise in the number of mistle thrushes. |
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A final charge alleges that the Het Burn cage contained two dead mistle thrushes, which are not covered by the licence. |
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Eggs from song thrushes thinned 6 percent, mistle thrushes 4 percent, and ring ouzels 2 percent. |
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Song thrushes and mistle thrushes were also seen in higher numbers in gardens. |
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When not breeding, several birds may also be loosely associated in good feeding areas, such as a fruiting tree, often with other thrushes. |
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The day was brightening now, and we needed to hustle to locate migrant songbirds, including warblers, vireos, thrushes, and flycatchers. |
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That's a large piece of preserved, contiguous habitat, and in that area one still finds a large number of breeding warblers, thrushes, vireos. |
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Species in the packs support a variety of wildlife, including starlings, blackbirds, song thrush and mistle thrushes and squirrels. |
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The current dip in temperatures will see more and more birds arriving, including common species such as blackbirds, mistle thrushes and finches. |
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Three-quarters of the skylark population has been wiped out while half of all song thrushes and yellowhammers have disappeared. |
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Data is collected on birds including babblers, thrushes, warblers, sunbirds, doves, flycatchers, waxbills and broadbills. |
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Whether he describes common eiders in Acadia, wood thrushes at Mammoth Cave, or belted kingfishers at Chattahoochee River, the depictions are crafted by an avid birder. |
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The big thrushes chacked and churred as they flew up to the relative safety of nearby trees as a sparrowhawk scooted by scolded by the ever present red legged partridges. |
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Swainson's thrushes too were easy to pick out, and other passerines could be regularly seen as silhouettes as they fluttered in front of the moon. |
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Say au revoir to winter thrushes, redwing and fieldfare as they begin their journey to distant breeding grounds, but get ready to welcome back swallows and starlings. |
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From the trees overhead came the harsh rattle of mistle thrushes as a small group of these birds sorted out their matrimonial and territorial affairs. |
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Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. |
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Then he moves on to discussing the chinquapin trees, or the mountain thrushes that should be back in about a month, or the ouzels or grouse or mountain beavers. |
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Ground-feeding birds, song thrushes and dunnocks will have found it difficult to feed with no grass to peck and all the worms drowned by the rainwater. |
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