What are the physical characteristics of a thrush? What are the characteristics of a thrush?

Thrush. It is characterized by a slender body.

The thrush has a slender body, slightly in the shape of a large shuttle with two tips and a large middle, and has a streamlined outline. Generally, the upper body feathers are olive, the lower abdominal feathers are greenish-brown or yellowish-brown, and the lower abdomen**A small part of the feathers are grayish-white with no markings.

The head, thorax, and neck feathers and tail feathers are darker in color and have black stripes or horizontal stripes. Its eye circles are white, and there is a white eyebrow on the side of the eye, which extends from front to back in a well-proportioned manner, and is mostly in the shape of moth eyebrows, which is very beautiful, hence the name.

Life habits of thrushes:

Thrushes are omnivorous, but their diet is dominated by insects throughout the year, especially during the breeding season, most of which are agricultural and forestry pests, including locusts.

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The larvae of the golden tortoiseshell, the larvae of the Lepidopteran Celestial Moth and the larvae of other moths are all its catches.

Plant-based foods are mainly seeds, fruits, grass seeds, wild fruits, strawberries, etc. During the breeding season, the parent birds catch a large number of insects in order to feed the chicks. During the non-breeding season, after the beginning of autumn, insects become less and less fed, feeding on various plant fruits, weed seeds, or tender vegetables.

In mountainous areas, before the frost and snow come, the thrush will also collect fruits and seeds and store them in the underground caverns or rocks on the side of the rocks as food for wintering. Therefore, there is a proverb among the peasants in the mountains: "The thrush hides more grain, and the snow lasts longer."

In early spring, it also occasionally pecks at legume crops and corn seedlings.

Thrush Turdidae Thrush Birds of the genus Turdus.

Pictured below is the (female) Turdus Hortulorum (Grey-backed Thrush), commonly known as Golden-breasted Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Tang Red-bellied, Red-bellied Grey Maibi, Grey Maibi, Grey-backed Grass-Piercing Thrush, and Grey Bluethrush.

The body length is 20-23 cm, and the body weight is 50-73 grams. The upper body is slate-gray, the chin and throat are grayish-white, the thorax is pale gray, the flanks and underwings are orange-chestnut, the abdomen is white, and the wings and tail are black.

They often move alone or in pairs, and during the spring and autumn migration seasons, they also form small groups of a few or more birds, and sometimes they form loose mixed groups with other thrushes. It is mostly active in open areas such as forest edges, wastelands, grassy slopes, glades and farmlands. Terrestrial, good at jumping and walking on the ground, mostly moving and foraging on the ground.

During the breeding period, it is very good at chirping, the song is crisp and loud, it can be heard from a long distance, and it is often fixed in one place from morning to night, especially in the early morning and evening.

It feeds mainly on insects and insect larvae such as Coleoptera, Konocedae, Bury Insects, Lepidoptera and Diptera, as well as fruits and seeds of other animals and plants such as earthworms.

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What are the advantages of raising a thrush?

Feeding thrushes is an elegant and noble undertaking with little investment and many benefits.

The main ones are the following:

1) Cultivate temperament, watch and have fun, love life, love nature, increase knowledge, and enrich spiritual life.

2) Make friends with birds, make friends, enhance friendship, and improve interpersonal relationships.

3) Through a very regular bird walking activity of a morning or a night, you can enhance the body's movement and exercise, which is very beneficial to health and longevity, especially for the elderly who rarely move after retirement, which can be said to be a rare good opportunity.

Listen to it at night before bedtime.

4) The investment in feeding thrushes is not large, if you can cultivate two or three good birds that are good at chirping and fighting in a year, you can increase a considerable economic income.

5) Raising thrushes can also play a role in lively families and reducing loneliness, especially in families where the elderly live alone, this effect is particularly obvious.

Because there are many benefits of feeding thrushes, there are more and more people feeding thrushes, especially retired old cadres and old workers.

There are many thrush enthusiast associations, thrush markets are all over the country, thrush fighting competitions are carried out in many places, and the song of thrush can be heard in rural areas, cities and even elegant halls.

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The thrush has a brown forehead, a tan on the top of the head and a back of the top, and broad black-brown longitudinal stripes from the forehead to the upper back, with darker colors at the front of the longitudinal stripes and a gradual lightening of the posterior parts. The eyebrow has white circles, and the upper edge of the white extends back into a narrow line to the side of the neck, like a beautiful eyebrow line. It mainly inhabits the dense shrubs of hills below 1,000 meters above sea level, and likes to sing on the branches in the morning and dusk.

The thrush has a brown forehead, a tan on the top of the head and a back of the top, and a broad black-brown longitudinal stripe from the forehead to the top, and the color of the anterior part of the longitudinal stripe is darker, and it gradually fades to the back. The eyebrow has white circles, and the upper edge of the white extends back into a narrow line to the side of the neck, like a beautiful eyebrow line. It mainly inhabits the dense shrubs of hills below 1,000 meters above sea level, and likes to sing on the branches in the morning and dusk.

Hidden, timid, and territorial, the male is fierce and aggressive. Usually only in autumn will appear in groups of three or five, called the statement bright and pleasant, for the best of the songbirds, often catch and raise and become a cage bird.

Characteristic of appearance, the forehead of the thrush is brown, the top of the head is brown to the back, and the white of the upper edge of the eye extends a narrow straight line, like a beautiful eyebrow line; Growth habits, mainly growing in the hills and dense forests below 1000 meters above sea level, timid personality, strong sense of territory; Habits, thrush is an omnivorous bird that feeds mainly on insects and food seeds.

The forehead of the thrush is brown, the top of the head is brown to the upper back, there are broad black-brown longitudinal lines from the forehead to the upper back, the front end of the longitudinal lines is deep, and the back will gradually fade, the eye circles are white, and the white on the upper edge extends backwards into a narrow straight line to the side of the neck, like a beautiful eyebrow line.

Thrushes mainly inhabit the shrubs of the dense forests of the hills below 1000 meters above sea level, like to fly to the branches in the early morning or dusk to chirp, the personality is hidden, timid, has a strong sense of territory, the male bird is very aggressive, only in autumn will appear in flocks.

The thrush is an omnivorous bird that feeds mainly on insects such as locusts, pine caterpillars, and tortoise shells, and feeds on plant seeds in autumn. Fruits, wild fruits, etc., the breeding period is in April and July every year, two litters can be bred every year, nests will be built in small trees, and sometimes nests will be built in the grass, each time can lay 3 5 eggs, the eggs are blue-green.

As the so-called environmental creation, due to the different natural environments in different places, the thrush that grows is not the same in character, body shape and coat color.

1. Most of the thrushes in Guizhou are large in shape and strong in length. The plumage is mostly dark brown and cyan. A few birds on the top of high mountains have yellowish-red plumage due to strong sunlight, which is called "red feather".

Guizhou bird feathers are rich in color, the eyebrow feathers are wide and long, bright to see, the call is loud, and the fight is loud, and the more you play, there are many good birds with bad habits, for this reason, the thrush of Guizhou is famous, and the bird market is sold in all places. Guizhou birds are especially produced in the southeast of Guizhou.

2. The thrush in Chongqing is comparable to the Guizhou bird in shape, because the geography and climate environment of the suburbs of Chongqing are not far from Guizhou. For example, the thrush of Chongqing Jinfo Mountain is generally tall and strong (the soles of the feet are larger than the Sichuan bird), and the tiger's head and tiger brain are very cute, but the feather color of the Chongqing bird is relatively single, and most of them are yellow-brown. In general, the thrush in Chongqing is not very famous.

3. The thrush of Sichuan has a delicate body, legs, feet and beak shells are slightly shorter, and the feathers are mostly yellow-brown and blue-brown. The thrush bird in Sichuan has thinner eyebrow feathers, and the call is wide and round, and it is long-lasting, and there are many clever mouths, and it is a singing bird. The thrush in Sichuan is famous, especially the one produced in Guan County.

4. The thrush bird in Anhui Province has a long shape, and most of the feathers are yellow-brown (yellowish) and are commonly known as "yellow hair", and they are good at whining.

5. The thrush bird in Zhejiang is larger, and the feather color is gray-brown, commonly known as "gray feather".

6. In addition, there are thrushes in Jiangxi, Lianghu, Liangguang and Yunnan, I don't know very well, please add it to bird friends!

In short, at present, it seems that thrushes are still produced in Guizhou and Sichuan.