Fieldfare

Turdus pilarisOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Thrushes (Turdidae)

Codes: Common Name: FIEL Scientific Name: TURPIL ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179766

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Dark brown.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Streaked, Eyering (complete or broken), Malar or malar stripe
Crown Color: Gray with dark streaking.
Forehead Color: Gray with white eyebrow.
Nape Color: Gray
Throat Color: Buff with dark streaking.
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 24-27 cm (9.5-10.5 in)
Weight: 108 g (3.8 oz)
Size: Size 3. Medium (9 - 16 in)
Color: White, Brown, Gray, Rufous or Rust
Underparts: Buff with dark, arrowhead-shaped spots.
Upperparts: Rufous
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Spotted or speckled, Striped or streaked

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Swift strong direct flight on rapidly beating wings.
Wingspan Range: 38-41 cm (15-16 in)
Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
Tail Shape: Pointed Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Gray
Under Tail: White with buff spotting.
Leg Color: Gray

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Fieldfare

Fieldfare: Large, robin-like thrush with rufous back with gray head and rump. Underparts are brown-barred white on breast and sides, and white on belly. Wings are rufous. Tail is dark gray to black. The bill is yellow with a dark tip. Strong and fast flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Song: "shak-shak-shak"

● Foraging & Feeding: Fieldfare: Eats insects, earthworms, slugs, berries, and fruits. Hops about on the ground and gleans food from trees and shrubs.

● Breeding & nesting: Fieldfare: Five to six gray or blue green eggs marked with red brown are laid in a nest made of mud, vegetation, and twigs, and built on the ground or on a low tree branch. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Fieldfare: Redwing has rufous wash on underwings, brown head and rump, black spotted and streaked throat, breast and sides, and buff eyestripe.

Flight Pattern

Swift strong direct flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Range & Habitat: Fieldfare: Occurs widely, often in large numbers, in most of central and southern Europe in winter; also common in Siberia and Greenland. Casual in Alaska and accidental elsewhere in North America; preferred habitats include woods and woodland edges in summer and open country, fields, and agricultural areas in winter.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary to colonial nester

^PopulationCasual in AK, Accidental

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight3.8 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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