#0582 · 🐦 birds

Song Thrush

🇳🇱 Zanglijster ·Turdus philomelos

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ximo Galarza · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Ignacio Ferre Pérez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Sid Mosdell · CC BY 4.0
4. © Sergey Gladkevich · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0
6. © Samuel Amaris · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Иван Матершев · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Luigi Andena · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The song thrush ( Turdus philomelos ) is a thrush that breeds across much of Eurasia. It has brown upperparts and black-spotted cream or buff underparts and has three recognised subspecies. Its distinctive song, which has repeated musical phrases, has frequently been referred to in poetry.

base stats

NL sightings 1,374iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 82,471iNaturalist observations
weight 72 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).