Hermit Thrush

Hermit Thrush

The Hermit Thrush ( Catharus guttatus ) is a medium-sized songbird of the thrush family.

Features

The 18 cm long Hermit Thrush is olive-green on the top and flanks and yellowish brown on the bottom with dark spots on the chest. Other features are the reddish tail and the white circles. Noteworthy is the beauty of the slow, falling singing, which is often performed by an exposed, high seat waiting.

Occurrence

The Hermit Thrush is a summer bird in northern forests and wooded mountains of North America, which runs for the winter to Central America to Guatemala.

Nutrition

The Hermit Thrush is looking at the floor or between plants for beetles, wasps and flies. Fruits, especially berries, complement the food.

Reproduction

The male occupied during the mating season, a district may enter into the only gravid females. These build a compact, bulky cup nest of plant material and mud usually on the ground under a conifer and incubate three to six eggs alone. However, the male feeds the female and helps in raising the young, which fledge after about twelve days. Often the parents birds breed a second time. Often, the Brown -headed Cowbird the Hermit Thrush tried to foist an egg, which usually does not notice the dizziness and the foreign cubs.

Others

• The Hermit Thrush is the official state bird of Vermont.
• A Hermit Thrush is the name of a poem of the American poet Amy Clampitt.