14 Facts About Mistle thrush

Mistle thrush is a bird common to much of Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa.

Mistle thrush was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae under its current scientific name.

Mistle thrush fossils have been found in Pleistocene deposits from Poland and Sicily.

Mistle thrush is much larger, paler and longer-tailed than the sympatric song thrush.

Mistle thrush is a partial migrant: birds from the north and east of the range wintering in the milder areas of Europe and North Africa.

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Mistle thrush is found in a wide range of habitats containing trees, including forests, plantations, hedges and town parks.

Mistle thrush is quite terrestrial, hopping with its head held up and body erect; when excited, it will flick its wings and tail.

The Mistle thrush's nest is a large cup of sticks, dry grass, roots and moss, coated on the inside with a layer of mud and lined with fine grass and leaves.

The mistle thrush has been known to kill slowworms and the young of the song thrush, blackbird and dunnock.

Mistle thrush is predated upon by a wide variety of birds of prey, including the boreal owl, short-eared owl, tawny owl, Ural owl, Eurasian eagle-owl, golden eagle, kestrel, common buzzard, red kite, northern goshawk, peregrine falcon, and sparrowhawk.

The mistle thrush is not normally a host of the common cuckoo, a brood parasite.

External parasites of the mistle thrush include the hen flea, the moorhen flea, the castor bean tick and the brightly coloured harvest mite.

The Mistle thrush was seen to be thus spreading the seeds of his own destruction.

The song of the mistle thrush is described in Thomas Hardy's "Darkling Thrush" and Edward Thomas's "The Thrush".