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11-JUN-2005 Gary Martin

Song thrush

Llanelli, Wales

Turdus philomelos
A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers are declining seriously, especially on farmland making it a Red List species. Smaller and browner than a mistle thrush with smaller spotting. Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguish it from singing blackbirds. It likes to eat snails which it breaks into by smashing them against a stone with a flick of the head.
(Info from www.rspb.org.uk)

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Calum Thomson 29-Apr-2015 15:29
Just seen "what I think" was a song Baird in my garden for the first time,did not know what it was until I Searched on here for its description. Good site.