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==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
Revision as of 16:49, 30 December 2008
- Turdus iliacus
Identification
21cm. Prominent creamy-white eyestripe and rusty-red flanks and underwings
Distribution
Scandinavia, a winter visitor to Britain. A casual vagrant to northeastern North America.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Open countryside, hedges, orchards and open, grassy fields. As a vagrant to North America it usually associates with flocks of American Robins.
Behaviour
Its diet includes berries and worms.
Bird Song
<flashmp3>Turdus iliacus (song).mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program
