Song Thrush

Name: Song Thrush

Scientific name: Turdus philomelos

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 30

What are nature stars?

About: A small thrush, about 20cm long. Brown above, with a white belly covered in black drop-shaped spots. Song Thrushes are common birds of parks and gardens, as well as woodland and scrub.

How to identify: Smaller and warmer brown than the Mistle Thrush, and lacks the white eye stripe and red flank patches of Redwing.

Where: Widespread

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 50
• Agility: 60
• Rarity: 20
• Cute factor: 50
• Traveller: 70

Fantastic fact: Song Thrushes particularly love to eat snails which they crack open by banging their shells agains a stone 'anvil'.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc