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Turdus iliacus

Photo by Nigel Blake, taken in Bedfordshire, UK

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.

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

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