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The Wood Thrush is a starling-sized bird that is brown above, with a rusty coloured head, and white below with blackish spots. Living in hardwood forests of the Algonquin Highlands, they use their large legs and feet to kick over dead leaves and organic matter, exposing the soil invertebrates they depend on for food. Before they have a chance to move for cover, prey are snapped up with their bills and swallowed.
Producing a beautiful song, the Wood Thrush gives a series of rich flute-like phrases. As a call signal, a sharp pit-pit-pit-pit is used.
They build their nest of grass and twigs, reinforced with mud, and lined with grass and rootlets. This nest is placed in a bush or sapling, and will contain around 4 greenish-blue eggs. A migrating bird, the Wood Thrush winters in the tropics. Possibly due to the loss of forests in this area, the Wood Thrush population is decreasing.
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WOOD THRUSH
Hylocichla mustelina
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