Thrush breeding. Thrushes. Thrushes are wintering or nomadic birds

Birds are classified as warm-blooded creatures. Their average body temperature is 41°C, which means that they can be active in cold weather provided they have enough food. Due to the lack of food, many birds leave their homes and fly to warm countries with the arrival of cold weather. There they will have the opportunity to find a lot of food. Migratory birds include the thrush, which we will discuss in the article.

Brief description of thrushes

Thrushes are passerines. Thrushes are called more than a dozen species of birds. They all differ from each other in appearance, size and habitat. Thrushes are famous singers and are considered forest dwellers. Nowadays, this bird species has become more sociable, therefore, to settle in urban green areas. In the evening and morning hours, the townspeople have the opportunity to enjoy the singing of singing birds. At the very beginning of summer or spring, birds sing even at night.

Birds are distinguished by a slender physique and a strong thin beak. They have strong claws, and the body length can be from 17 to 28 cm. The weight of the feathered one varies, the weight depends on the species, it can be ranging from 85 to 110 grams. Appearance and color may also differ depending on the species. The plumage of most species has brown and brown spots. The most modest color of feathers is black, and the stone thrush is distinguished by a brighter plumage. They have a very mobile tail, if the tail twitches, this is a signal of alarm and danger. There are two types of thrushes that can be kept at home in a cage:

  • singing;
  • black.

About 2 dozen species are found on the territory of Russia, but the most common are:

  • fieldfare,
  • black;
  • singing;
  • red brow;
  • mess.

In total, there are 62 species of thrushes in the world, many of them live in Asia, America and Europe. Birds move very interestingly, jumping and crouching at the same time. These singers are shy, active and smart. Their life expectancy is up to 17 years.

Habitat

Thrushes inhabit almost the entire planet, they are not only in the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as on oceanic islands. If we talk about whether migratory thrushes are birds or not, then it is impossible to answer this question unambiguously. Thrush in temperate latitudes are migratory birds, and in the rest they rarely leave their homes.

There are many migratory thrushes, and most of them arrive very early at their nesting sites. They also leave them late, flying to warmer climes. They live mainly in deciduous and coniferous forests, but some species can also live on the plains. Thrush nests are built on shrubs and trees. Birds settle mainly in forests, mountains and on the plains, they also often began to settle in the suburbs.

Food

In the summer, birds eat insects but may also eat a variety of invertebrates. At the time of berry ripening, most species of thrush prefer berries and fruit plants. For rural areas, these birds are a real disaster, as they can destroy a large crop. When birds unite in flocks they can destroy:

  • strawberry fields;
  • pear and apple trees;
  • other berry crops.

Despite such problems with the harvest, thrushes still benefit by destroying many insect pests of agriculture.

Many have thrushes in their homes, but before you do this, you should know that the birds are very suspicious and shy. If you want to have this species in your house, then you need to create a spacious aviary for it. When it is not possible to make an aviary, you need to select a cage with minimum dimensions 70x30x40 cm. The aviary or cage should be equipped with hanging feeders, in this form the thrush prefers to eat food. The bird loves sunlight and water treatments. In the warm season, it is recommended to keep thrushes at home in a well-ventilated area in partial shade.

Thrushes are gluttonous, but they are easier to keep than other insectivorous birds. It takes a lot of food to feed them. In general, birds prefer soft food. In addition to many types of berries, thrushes willingly feed on slugs, earthworms, and bare caterpillars.

Thrushes - wintering or nomadic birds?

These birds are considered migratory, but their departure for wintering is extended in time. This phenomenon goes unnoticed. In spring they return in small flocks or alone. With the advent of September, thrushes begin to fly off to warmer climes. In fruitful years for berries, birds can fly away much later. A species such as fieldfare can remain for the winter if there are a lot of berries in the places of its settlement. Thrushes winter in Africa, in southern Asia and southern Europe. After wintering, they return in April.

They can create nests even on the ground, they can settle on stumps and trees. Often settled in hollows, on heaps of brushwood and the roots of fallen trees. Birds always try to nest in places inaccessible to predators.

Thrushes can hatch chicks twice a year. The female incubates 3-7 eggs. Due to its color, the female is almost invisible in the nest. While the expectant mother is sitting on the clutch, the male can sometimes replace her, for a short time. Chicks appear after 2 weeks helpless, they really need parental care. Mother and father feed them berries and insects. Everyday food for the chicks will depend on how lucky the male is. It can be:

Thrush flights to warmer climes occur at night twice a year - in spring and autumn. If the house has a thrush in a cage, then the birds during this period of time behave very restlessly at night. They are constantly jumping from perch to perch and also jump to the floor. They create noise with their anxiety.

When birds are healthy and in a good mood, they are very active. Thrushes eat a lot, are mobile, bathe willingly and do not hoof. Their feathers are not ruffled, their beak and eyes are clean.

Thrush (lat. Turdus)- a bird that belongs to the order of passerines. The thrush family includes 62 species, about 20 species are found on the territory of Russia. The most common is the song thrush, its weight reaches 55-100 grams, body length is 21-25 cm. The back and tail are painted chocolate brown with silvery stains. The belly is white, the sides are variegated. The chest is yellowish, with dark brown spots, the area under the wings is reddish. In young, the color is duller, sexual dimorphism is not expressed.

photo: Song Thrush. It is he who has the most beautiful vocal among blackbirds.

The redwing thrush is smaller, its mass rarely exceeds 60 grams. The back is colored olive-brown, the area under the wings and sides of the chest is reddish, above the eyes there are “eyebrows”, pigmented in whitish-yellow, which is why the bird got its name.


photo: Blackwing thrush

The blackbird is completely black, the beak is bright orange.


photo: Blackbird. He is also a good vocalist.

The White-throated Thrush is very similar to the Blackbird, but has a distinct white stripe on its chest, and the beak is pigmented orange.


photo: white-throated thrush

Fieldfare, red thrush, mistletoe, red-throated, gray-gray, olive, Siberian, golden and other species are also common. You can see what different types of thrushes look like in the video below.

Distribution, feeding, nesting of thrushes

Thrushes mainly feed on various caterpillars, butterflies, insects, earthworms. They can also peck at ripe berries and fruits on trees.


photo: Blackbird with prey

By feeding the chicks, representatives of this species destroy many insects: every day they have to fly in search of food for their offspring 200 or more times.


photo: Song Thrush feeding chicks

Thrush nests can be seen on trees, shrubs, stumps, often near a forest clearing or on the edge, birds avoid dark places. The bird's nest itself is built in the form of a bowl of thin twigs, roots, leaves, pieces of moss, it is plastered with clay from the inside. Basically, females make two clutches per year: 5-6 and 4-5 eggs, respectively, incubate the chicks for 13-15 days. Both parents feed the offspring.


photo: Song thrush in a spacious cage

At home, it is recommended to keep thrushes in large cages, from 70 cm long. Equip them with a house, perches, drinking bowls, and toys. You can give the birds soft food, grated vegetables, cottage cheese, berries, fruits, cereals, bread, flour and other worms. In captivity, they also breed, but in enclosures.

  • These birds move in an interesting way: jumping, slightly crouching;
  • Distributed in Europe, America, Asia, fly south in flocks for the winter;
  • The most popular species for breeding are: songbird and blackbird - such individuals have beautiful voices, they were even nicknamed "forest nightingales";
  • To drive enemies away from the nest, thrushes attack them. If the tactic does not work, then the bird pretends to be sick and lame and takes the predator away from the nesting place;
  • Thrushes are bold but cautious birds. Once deceived, an individual will never again fall into the same trap.

See photos of different types of thrushes and listen to the voice of the song thrush

Thrush nests in the forest catch the eye, perhaps more often than the nests of other birds. Twisted from dry straw and rather large, they are clearly visible in the forks of trunks or on tree branches. Moreover, the thrushes themselves raise an alarming cry when a person appears in the forest and, flying from branch to branch near the nest, give out his whereabouts.

At first glance, the nests of various thrushes are similar to each other, but upon closer examination, you can notice the difference, and in most cases, determine which species of thrush the found nest belongs to, even if the birds themselves are not nearby or even when the chicks have long left their home and the nest is empty.

Nesting of the field thrush

Thrush fieldfare often settles even in city parks. But more often it occupies the marginal areas of forests and groves, where it sometimes forms nesting colonies. And although sometimes you can see the nests of these birds very low above the ground, for the most part they place them quite high, especially if they settled in a crowded place. Then the nest can be seen at an inaccessible height, almost 25 m from the ground.

Fieldfare nests on a variety of trees, but prefers to do so on birches, oaks or pines. Moreover, on birches, nests are usually located in the fork of the trunk or between the trunk and the bough extending from it, on large oaks - usually on thick horizontal branches, often quite far from the trunk, on pines - almost at the ends of dense low branches, 3-5 m from the earth. However, in different places, depending on the nature of the forest, birds can also settle on other trees. In the Kostroma region in the river valley Unzha, fieldfare build nests on alder, goat willow and elm. In abandoned villages, they nest on the ruins of huts or in dense elderberry bushes growing near houses.

A large and dense nest is made of dry stems and leaves of grasses and sedges, held together by sticky earth. The tray is lined with thinner blades of grass and plant fibers. The nest is 12 to 20 in diameter and 8 to 15 cm in height, the size of the tray is (7-13) x 6.5 cm. Both birds manage to build such a structure in five days, after which it dries for two days. In a dry nest, the female lays 4-7 eggs of a greenish color, with thick brown spots, curls and specks. The size of the eggs is about 28.7 × 21.2 mm. Full clutches can be found from late April to mid-May. And since the laying period of eggs is very extended, and when the laying is lost, the thrushes begin to lay again, in different nests you can simultaneously see incomplete clutches, and heavily incubated eggs, and chicks of various ages.

The clutch is incubated mainly by the female. The male does not feed her, so she has to leave the nest for a while to feed. The male, on the other hand, guards the nest, being nearby, and usually raises the alarm when a predator or a person appears. 2 weeks after the start of incubation, chicks appear. The thrushes carry the eggshells and leave them away from the nest. The female initially stays in the nest for a long time - she warms the little chicks, but then both birds begin to forage and bring food, and on the way back, for food, grab white droppings capsules and throw them 20-30 m from the nest. Over time, a large number of heaps of drying litter accumulate in a small area. Chick litter is different from the litter of adult birds. It is thick, like sour cream, white drop with darker zones. It is, as it were, enclosed in a thin shell and does not blur in the beak of the bird that bears it.

The chicks stay in the nest for about 13 days. But, disturbed, they can prematurely jump out of it and hide in the grass. Often these chicks die from hypothermia. Fledglings, who left the nest in time, sit down in the bushes. Sometimes, when approaching them, a person hides, taking a motionless pose, and can let him very close to him. Adults feed the fledglings for about a week, and already at the very end of May or in the first days of June they begin to build a new nest.

Blackbird nesting

Blackbird on a nest located in a fork in a linden trunk

The blackbird, unlike fieldfare, likes to settle in deaf forest ravines or in swampy old alder groves intertwined with hops and overgrown with nettles and currants. Often he places his nest at the very butt of a tree, among plant rags and stems of climbing plants, sometimes in a fork in the trunk, but not high above the ground, or in a large wide hollow, a rotten old tree. The nest is usually 14-18 cm across and 6-9 cm high. It is made of thin twigs, nettle stalks, patches of moss, fastened with damp earth and clay. The tray is lined with thin dry blades of grass, its size is (4.5-6.5) x (6.5-12) cm.

The eggs of the blackbird, and there are 5-7 of them in the nest, are on average somewhat larger than those of the fieldfare, and are paler in color - greenish-blue, with more rare blurry spots. With a certain skill, they can be distinguished from fieldfare eggs and other thrushes. Of all our thrushes, the blackbird sits especially tightly on the nest. I was able to sketch the nests of these thrushes from a very close distance, and the female continued to incubate the clutch.

Song Thrush nesting

Song Thrush fledgling lurking on a branch

The song thrush obviously prefers spruce forests, and most often it is possible to see its nests there. If the spruce is large, then the nest is located at the very trunk, on top of a branch extending from it, and if it is young and dense - in the middle of the crown. I had to find nests of song thrushes and on the trunks of trees cut down or felled by the wind, the needles of which had already turned brown. They can build nests in completely different places, and on other trees, for example, in hollows of old trees, on thin trunks of bird cherry trees inclined over a ravine, on trunks of fallen trees, often on wooden buildings located in the forest, and sometimes right on the ground.

The nest of the song thrush is very easy to distinguish from the nests of other thrushes living in the middle lane. Made on the outside of thin dry spruce twigs, dry grass stalks and green moss, inside it is always smeared with damp rot or clay. And when, after 2-3 days, the layer of rotten things lining the bottom dries out, the nest from the inside becomes like a large deep cup. Directly on this lining, without any additional bedding, the female lays bright blue eggs with rare black dots. Already in coloring they cannot be confused with any others. The average size of the eggs is 27×20.2 mm. In the first clutch you can find 4-7, in the second 3-5 eggs.

Sometimes the whole nest is built from dry stalks of nettle or marsh horsetail, and then it seems especially large and light, but inside it is still plastered with wet rotten things. Nest dimensions are approximately the same as those of other thrushes: 10-19 cm across and 8-14 cm high; tray (8-11) x (5.5-8) cm.

Redwing Thrush nesting

Redwing Thrush nest on deadwood pile

Redwing more often than other thrushes makes nests right on the ground, sometimes under the cover of a fallen trunk or branch, and sometimes just at the foot of a tree or on the slope of a forest ravine. But still, he often places them at a certain height, although not high from the ground - on a pile of deadwood or on a stump, often on the end of a rotten alder trunk broken at a height of 2-4 m, in a fork in a gnarled trunk of a forest willow, between the roots uprooted by a storm tree.

Redwing nests are usually somewhat smaller than those of other thrushes, although they can be just as large. Some of them are cemented from the inside, like the nests of a song thrush. In such cases, one should be especially careful not to make a mistake in determining to whom the nest belongs. Many nests are covered on the inside with dry grass over clay. Redwing nest is 11-20 cm in diameter and 9-18 cm in height; tray size (8.5-12)x(5-7) cm.

Redwing eggs are smaller than those of other thrushes - about 25.8 * 18.7 mm. They are darker green in color with a reticulated pattern of brown streaks and whorls.

Mistle Thrush nesting

Mistle Thrush nests are much rarer than nests of any of the above mentioned thrushes. Despite the fact that the singing of these birds is easiest to hear in a pine forest, and the birds themselves are most often found in pine forests, I have never found their nests in pine trees. I came across them only on deciduous trees - in the forks of trunks of large willows on the banks of a forest river and on a sprawling birch, near a small forest clearing. These thrushes are also known to build their nests inside old nests of crows and birds of prey.

The nest, found by me on May 31, was placed in a fork in the trunk of a thick birch, 7 m from the ground. Outside, it was twisted from spruce twigs and dry herbs. All this was sealed with clay. The diameter of the nest was 16.5 cm, and the size of the tray was 10.5 × 7 cm. The nest contained 4 heavily incubated eggs of a bluish-green color, with purple-gray and brown spots. The size of the eggs is about 31.2-22.3 mm. The mistletoe has 2 broods per year.

The thrush bird can compete with the beauty of chirping with the more famous forest singer - the nightingale. Relatively recently, these creatures settled exclusively in pure forest thickets, but now they can be found in well-groomed park areas, where they can find the necessary amount of food.

The thrush bird can compete with the beauty of chirping with the more famous forest singer - the nightingale

It is worth noting that thrushes are a large family, including 62 species, differing in habitat, color and method of obtaining food. Only 20 species are found on the territory of the CIS. This bird is common, but many people do not even know what a thrush looks like.

However, it is difficult to find someone who would not hear his excellent flooding singing, especially pleasing to the ear in the spring.

Thrushes are relatively small birds. Depending on the species, these creatures can reach 20-25 cm in length. Body weight usually ranges from 100 to 180 g. All representatives of the thrush family are characterized by a short gray or bright yellow beak. The eyes are usually black. Most species of these birds are distinguished by a modest plumage color.

For example, the most common songbird or gray thrush in Russia has a chocolate-gray head and back. The sides of the bird are usually yellowish. The breast is lighter in color with brown patches. Representatives of both sexes have plumage similar in color.

The blackbird is no less common than the songbird. Females, forced to stay in the nest for a long time, have a very modest grayish-beige plumage color. It allows the bird to remain invisible to natural enemies. Males of this species look like a jackdaw. Black plumage is probably necessary for a bird to impress a partner during the breeding season.

The image of a blackbird is complemented by a bright orange beak. This coloration remains with the bird all year round.

Relatively recently, these creatures settled exclusively in pure forest thickets, but now they can be found in well-groomed park areas, where they can find the necessary amount of food.

The Pied Thrush lives up to its name only during the breeding season. At this time, males acquire bright plumage. In birds at this time, the head is distinguished by a gray-blue color, the abdomen and tail are orange, and there is a white stripe on the back. For the winter, they change their plumage and begin to resemble females, characterized by a modest gray-gray plumage.

Another prominent representative of this family is the blue thrush.. It has a grayish-blue plumage of the body and head, but the wings and tail are black. The blue thrush retains this plumage throughout the year. The females of this species have a brown color with variegated patches. The blue thrush, despite its variegated coloration, merges with the surrounding landscape, therefore it is not too noticeable for possible predators.

Some less common thrush species have more colorful plumage. Green, yellow, orange color of marriage attire allows males to show themselves in all their glory in front of their partners.

Thrushes are heat-loving birds, therefore they make long migrations. Many of their species breed chicks in Europe, America and Asia. For the entire winter period, birds migrate to the southern regions, which are distinguished by a mild climate. These birds can hardly endure intense heat, so in Africa they are found exclusively in the northern regions.

There were no thrushes in Australia before the appearance of people on this continent. They were introduced in the 19th century and managed to populate not only the entire mainland, but also New Zealand.

Gallery: thrush bird (25 photos)







Blackbird in the nest (video)

The behavior of thrushes in the natural environment

In the natural environment, these birds form a pair only for one season. Birds arrive at nesting sites at the end of April, when the weather is warm enough for them. Males attract a female with beautiful singing, spreading in the forest thicket for several kilometers. After the formation of a pair, the birds jointly build a house for future chicks.

Usually nests are equipped:

  • in the hollows of trees;
  • on bumps;
  • stumps;
  • branchy shrub.

On rare occasions, bird nests can be seen on the ground. Usually thrushes try to settle along river floodplains, as well as near small clearings where they can find more food.

The nest of these birds is usually small. Birds weave it from small twigs. From the wrong side, the nest is always reinforced with clay. Inside it is lined with soft last year's grass. Often, when building a nest, birds use soft moss, fluff, small roots, etc.

A pair of birds can make 2 clutches of eggs per season. This allows them a short period of incubation of chicks. Young animals eat a lot of insects, so they get enough protein for fast growth.

The most common songbird or gray thrush in Russia has a chocolate-gray head and back.

Usually up to 5-6 eggs hatch in one clutch, but not all chicks survive. The duration of incubation is 13-15 days. The male is also involved in the process of incubating the eggs.. Further, both parents are engaged in the search for food so that their offspring can get on the wing as soon as possible and begin to live on their own. The chick eats a lot, but also grows quickly. Thrushes search for insects while jumping across open areas.

In addition, this bird eats the ripe pulp of some fruits and berries. This often causes significant damage to agricultural plantings. At the same time, it also brings significant benefits, as it eats caterpillars and other pests. Usually thrushes are ready to fly away in mid-September. Sometimes, when there is an abundance of berries, the birds may fly away for the winter in mid-October.

Singing thrush (video)

Keeping and breeding thrushes in captivity

Some species of these birds are suitable for keeping at home. Song thrushes that were born in captivity get used to humans faster. A bird caught in the forest should not be kept locked up. A large cage is suitable for keeping a song thrush. Be sure to include a suitable size perch, toys, drinkers and a house. This is very important, as birds sometimes need privacy.

In captivity, the thrush eats:

  • flour worms;
  • pulp of fruits and berries;
  • cereals;
  • bread;
  • grated vegetables;
  • cottage cheese.

Thrushes living in captivity rarely breed. As a rule, it is possible to achieve only 2-3 offspring from a pair. In captivity, with the right maintenance and creation of the necessary conditions, the average life expectancy of song thrushes is about 12 years.

Attention, only TODAY!

Ornithurae, or Neornithes = Fan-tailed birds, new birds
  • Superorder: Neognathae = New-palatine birds, neognats
  • Order: Passeriformes = Passeriformes, passeriformes
  • Suborder: Oscines = Singers
  • Family: Turdidae = Thrush

    • THRUSHS in the house

    The song thrush is small and differs from other variegated thrushes by its brownish-brown upperparts, teardrop-shaped speckles on the buffy chest, and, most importantly, the buffy-yellow undersides of the wings.

    The song thrush deserves its name. In the opinion of other lovers, he may well argue with the beauty of the song with the nightingale, but in terms of the strength of the sounds it surpasses him. This thrush sings its loud juicy song slowly, with feeling, sense and arrangement, repeating each knee two or three times (on this basis, it is easy to distinguish it from the somewhat similar song of the blackbird and the mist).

    “Some tribes of the song thrush can be very closely conveyed by syllables and even words of human speech. Another singer pronounces like this: “Ni-ki-ta, Ni-ki-ta, tea-drink, tea-drink ... let's drink, drink ... well-someone-quickly, well-ka-someone-quickly ... ”, - with a wide variety of permutations and combinations. Other whistles are strikingly pure and beautiful; but the worse the singer sings, the more he hears chirping and even crackling insertions (“well, someone, hurry ...”) and the more often the same “words” are repeated. But you can never hear the famous nightingale clicking from the song thrush,” writes a great connoisseur and lover of bird singing prof. A. N. Promptov.

    The song is well conveyed by the following words: “Phi-lipp, Phi-lipp, Phi-lipp. .. Come, come, come, come... Tea-drink, tea-drink, tea-drink. .. Let's drink, drink, drink, drink...” In captivity, the song thrush sings early, by the new year, and sings a lot even in the evening, by fire. There is one flaw in excellent singing. When a thrush sings, sitting on top of a tall spruce, it can be heard in the evening silence for a good half a kilometer, if not further. You can imagine what it is like in a cage, within the four walls of a room. Sing - deafen! The song thrush adapts well to captivity, is friendly and can live in a common aviary with other birds. This applies to all types of our thrushes.

    In nature, thrushes feed by running on the ground, so the cage for them should be spacious, not less, but better than the one described for the starling. They bathe a lot and often, which means that splash protection also needs to be done.

    In food, thrushes are not picky. They should be given a mixture of nightingale with the addition of mealworms and white bread in milk. Earthworms for thrushes are almost the same delicacy as flour ones. In wet summers, earthworms may be the only food for adult thrushes and their chicks. Since autumn, thrushes in nature almost completely switch to feeding with berries, in the Central Russian forests - most often mountain ash. They also need berries in captivity; some of them can be replaced with fruits. So, for example, these birds are very fond of apples and eat a lot of them. On occasion, snails and slugs, which are especially fond of the song thrush, should be given.

    Catching a thrush - a cautious and intelligent bird - is not easy. In autumn, it is caught under mountain ash, which is better grown separately. Here is the network. If it is dry, then they are caught using water as bait. To bait flying thrushes, a tamed fieldfare is placed at the point. This is the most social species of thrush, and other species go to its voice. Thrushes flying nearby, having heard the voice of their friend, turn off the path and sit down on a mountain ash. However, they fly to the point with the network with great caution and not all of a sudden, but one by one. In thrush flocks, most of the birds are fieldfare, fewer white-browed birds, even fewer songbirds, and black ones completely keep to themselves. Therefore, it is necessary to cover them with a network with a choice, keeping an eye on which species are on the point.

    These birds are caught with a loose net in early autumn, when they have not yet gathered in flocks and feed on the ground. Luchki-samolovy are good at this time. They are placed in the path of a feeding thrush, masked and the bird is carefully driven towards them. In my opinion, it is better to look not for adult thrushes, but for chicks and feed them. I have many times lived fosterling thrushes, including songbirds.

    The song thrush's nest is very open; in the middle zone of the country almost always on a Christmas tree with a stem of 5-8 cm; low above the ground. It is impossible to confuse it with the nests of other thrushes: only in the songbird it is plastered inside with an even layer of rotten wood, deep, like a cup, and has no lining. The nests of thrushes of other species are made mainly of clay and lined with a layer of blades of grass or roots inside. The blackbird sometimes also uses rotten wood, but there is always a lot of green moss in its nest, by which it can be easily recognized.

    Of the foster-singing thrushes that lived with me, the most remarkable was a couple, taken from a nest almost a day old. They were brought up by the writer Elena Borisovna Uspenskaya at the Zvenigorod biological station. What kind of birds they were! They lived in a garden enclosure. They were not kept here for fear that they would fly away: it was necessary to protect this couple from cats and crows. However, it was not possible to save the thrushes in the aviary either: they were wounded through the bars by a magpie sitting next door.

    Both thrushes were completely tame. As soon as I entered the cage, they flew towards me, sat on my outstretched hand, looked between my fingers to see if there was a flour worm. I went out with them from the enclosure. They flew around the park, looking for and finding something in the foliage. But as soon as you approach them, call them and stretch out your hand, they sit down on it. So I brought them back to the aviary.

     

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