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  Mistle Thrush - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mistle Thrush, common name for one of several well-known songbirds.
The largest genus of true thrushes, with about 66 species, is found in both temperate and tropical areas around the world; only one species, the...
Thrush (medicine), creamy white curd-like patches on the tongue and other mucosal surfaces of the mouth caused by the fungus, Candida albicans.
au.encarta.msn.com /Mistle_Thrush.html   (124 words)

  
 Mistle thrush - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A mistle thrush may be mistaken for a song thrush, but is larger with slightly greyer and paler colouring and a longer tail.
Mistle thrushes are widespread and common throughout Britain.
Mistle thrushes build a cup-shaped nest in the fork of a tree, and females lay four or five eggs between March and May. They often have two broods in one year.
www.rspb.org.uk /gardens/guide/atoz/m/mistlethrush.asp   (245 words)

  
 British Garden Birds - Mistle Thrush
The Mistle Thrush, Missel Thrush or Stormcock is bigger and paler than a Song Thrush and has bolder spotting on its breast and belly.
The Mistle Thrush's diet is the same as the Song Thrush's: insects, worms, slugs but rarely snails, and berries, such as yew, rowan, hawthorn and holly.
Mistle Thrushes visit the garden occasionally, looking for food, but is more often seen singing atop a neighbour's tree or TV aerial or flying over making its angry "football rattle" call.
www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/mistlethrush.htm   (356 words)

  
 Turdus viscivorus - Mistle Thrush
The mistle thrush, a resident bird in Wales, is quite a lot bigger than its less plentiful cousin the song thrush.
Mistle thrushes usually build their nests in the fork of a tree, using grass, roots and mud and an inner lining of dry grass.
The mistle thrush sings a repetitive song, often from the top of a tree and apparently oblivious to bad weather, but it lacks the diverse repertoire and tonal quality of the song thrush.
www.first-nature.com /birds/turdus_viscivorus.htm   (173 words)

  
 British Garden Birds - Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush or Blackbird and is less upright when standing.
The Song Thrush's song may be repetitive - repeating the same phrase three or four times, as if it liked it the first time and so does it a few more times - but it is clear and flute-like, and is often chosen by people as being their favourite bird song.
The Song Thrush population is less than half what it used to be and so it is on the Red List.
www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/songthrush.htm   (594 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) is a common member of the thrush family Turdidae.
It is found in open woods and cultivated land over all of Europe and much of Asia.
The Mistle Thrush averages about 27 cm long, larger than the similar Song Thrush.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mistle_Thrush   (237 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush
The Mistle Thrush is one of the earliest garden birds to breed.
Mistle Thrushes are familiar garden birds, either seen alone, in pairs or in family groups, Often seen in the open, they are rather more boisterous than the Song Thrush.
Mistle Thrush nests are large and untidy, sometimes including odd materials such as waste paper and plastic.
www.bto.org /gbw/Species/BIRDS_MISTH.htm   (518 words)

  
 Birds
The Mistle Thrush usually builds its nest in the fork of tree branches, or in a bush or wall.
The Song Thrush is a warm brown colour, except for its underparts, which are creamy white, with dashes of dark brown.
The nest of a Song Thrush is made of twigs, moss and grass and has a smooth lining of wood pulp, which dries to support the bowl shape of the nest.
www.naturegrid.org.uk /biodiversity/birds/thrush.htm   (933 words)

  
 Listen Up! :: Pop Rock Delights : Mistle Thrush
Boston's Mistle Thrush released "Drunk With You" in February 2002 on Ecstatic Records.
It was their first full length release since 1997's "Super Refraction." I've lost track of the number of Mistle Thrush CDs I've bought for friends since I was introduced to the band's music in 1994; but what I always prefer is to make the musical introduction at a live show.
Mistle Thrush's version of the song features a rather gratuitous guitar solo(s) and Valerie on the theremin her dad made.
listenup.sooz.com /archives/000251.html   (258 words)

  
 Mistle thrush - Turdus viscivorus - English Nature
The mistle thrush is a larger, greyer and more confident bird than the more familiar song thrush and has a loud, rattling call that is quite unlike that of its smaller relative.
It has greyish-brown upperparts, densely-spotted underparts and in its noticeably bounding flight, which resembles that of a woodpecker, the white patches on the underwing and the white feathers on the edge of the tail are often clearly visible.
Mistle thrushes nest quite high up, often in the exposed fork of a large tree such as ash, beech or cherry.
www.plantpress.com /wildlife/o32-mistlethrush.php   (362 words)

  
 Mistle thrush - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Mistle thrush - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
This is a pale, fl-spotted thrush - large, aggressive and powerful.
It stands boldly upright and bounds across the ground while in flight, it has long wings and its tail has whitish edges.
www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/m/mistlethrush/index.asp   (208 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is found across Europe, with the exception of Norway and the mountains of Scandinavia, and as far south as North Africa and eastwards as far as Siberia.
In contrast to that of the song thrush, the mistle thrush's flight is heavily undulating.
Mistle thrushes inhabit fairly open land such as the edges of woods, large gardens, orchards, and parkland.
www.ruralnet.org.uk /~epic/fod/mistlethrush.htm   (274 words)

  
 Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: Mistle Thrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The diversity of Mistle Thrush's music is shown by the bands they've shared the stage with, including Sonic Youth, Garbage, Luscious Jackson, Spiritualized, Love & Rockets, Morphine, Helium, Mercury Rev, BRMC and the Strokes.
It's a posh open-air club with a fountain and couches; David J. is sitting on one, and I catch the eye of a petite, pretty blonde woman sitting across from him with her friends.
Ginger Spice and her friends are there for Mistle Thrush; fill-in bassist Andrew Payne hit it off with one of the girls Wednesday night.
www.weeklydig.com /articles/mistle_thrush   (675 words)

  
 Song Thrush, Turdus philomelos
Later in the year, when nesting is in full swing, the most sustained song is given by male thrushes still unpaired or which have lost mates.
Half the adult population and two-thirds of first-year song thrushes are considered to be migratory.
A glance at a thrush distribution map reveals that summer range extends as far north as the birch scrub zone on the Kola peninsular.
www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/song-thrush.htm   (501 words)

  
 Irish Birds -- Songthrush --  - Pupils Work
There are two species of thrush, the mistle thrush and the song thrush.The song thrush appears on this stamp.
The song thrush lives garden/parks/woods and high hedges and the mistle thrush lives in woods/gardens/parks and bushy hillsides.
The song thrush is a beautiful singer and its song is loud and can by heard far away and is always different.
homepage.eircom.net /~edrice/birds/thrush.htm   (178 words)

  
 MistleThrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The mistle thrush has lighter brown on its back.The mistle thrush has bolder spots than the song thrush.The mistle thrush is bigger then the song thrush.They have white under their wings.
Mammy Thrush builds the nest in the fork of the tree higher up than a song thrush.They make a large nest from dry vegetation and they line it with dry grass.They do not try to hide it.The mistle thrush is a bossy bird.
The mistle thrush got its name because they eat the berries of mistletoe.They feed on snails, worms, fruit and holly and hawthorn berries.
homepage.eircom.net /~cavanno1/mistlethrush.htm   (150 words)

  
 Thrush (bird) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World.
They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground.
Traditionally it included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but now often either that group or the whole family is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrush_(bird)   (168 words)

  
 Bexley Council - Parks and Open Spaces - Bexley's Biodiversity Action Plan - Song Thrush Action Plan
The song thrush belongs to the same family as flbird, mistle thrush and winter visitors the redwing and fieldfare.
Song thrushes are generally more abundant in the east than the west of the country, with Kent, East Anglia, parts of the south Midlands and the Downs being traditional strongholds.
In the same family as flbird, mistle thrush and winter visitors the redwing and fieldfare, the song thrush is of medium size (9 inches/23cm) An inch smaller than a flbird and some three inches larger than a house sparrow.
www.bexley.gov.uk /service/parks/biodiv-actplan-songthrush.html   (1855 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush: Drunk With You - PopMatters Music Review
Still, with virtually no trace of the downtrodden gloom of the Mistle Thrush of old, it continues to get the "goth" tag from rock writers.
Sure, there are a couple of moments on the album that hold Mistle Thrush back, most notably a grunge-era knock-off ("Enginehead") and a complete sleeper ("Heavy-set John").
All in all, though, the album shows Mistle Thrush is a band 90 percent of the way towards creating the perfect, sentimental rock album, and a world away from its somnabulistic dirges and muddy, shattered emotions of old.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/mistlethrush-drunk.shtml   (811 words)

  
 mistle thrush definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
mistle thrush definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
mis·tle thrush (plural mis·tle thrush·es) or mis·sel thrush (plural mis·sel thrush·es)
large thrush: a large thrush with a spotted breast and grayish back that feeds on berries, especially those of mistletoe.
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861630538/mistle_thrush.html   (86 words)

  
 BBC - Cambridgeshire Planet Cambridgeshire - The Song Thrush
Often confused with the mistle thrush (but best distinguished by the orange flash of its underwing compared to the pale flash of a mistle thrush), this frequent yet timid garden visitor is perhaps best known for its habit of using stones to crack open snail shells.
Since the early 1970s the song thrush has declined by over 70% on farmland and 50% in woodlands.
The Wildlife Trust, RSPB and others are encouraging farmers and landowners to take up more sympathetic management of hedgerows, thickets and farm woodlands, as well as to reduce their usage of pesticides and to consider mixed farming.
www.bbc.co.uk /cambridgeshire/planet_cambs/songthrush.shtml   (502 words)

  
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The Bicknell's Thrush is of very high importance because of its extremely limited range, small overall population, and its extreme vulnerability to deforestation in its limited winter range.
He and A. Housman who, with their colloquial diction and plain speaking, are among the first modern poets, showed a way out of the smoothly-wrought and gilded bars of high Victorian verse to a poetry of the new century.
Some strains of thrush have become resistant to nystatin, so if the nystatin does not bring relief, other drugs may be necessary.
www.lycos.com /info/thrush.html   (693 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
And when we see the Mistle Thrush, it's often high up in trees.
The song of the Mistle Thrush differs very much from that of the Song Thrush, so sometimes listening carefully is the only way to tell them apart, even though the Mistle Trush is bigger.
The Mistle Trush, though not afraid of people, will never be as relaxed in your garden as the Song Thrush sometimes is.
www.gardensafari.net /english/pages/grootlijster.htm   (221 words)

  
 Thrush (bird) - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Thrush (bird) - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Thrush (bird), common name applied to any of a large family of widely distributed passerine (perching) birds, many of which are songbirds.
Bird, common name for any member of the class of vertebrates that contains animals with feathers.
au.encarta.msn.com /Thrush_(bird).html   (102 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush : Turdus viscivorus-28cm...
The Mistle Thrush is the largest of the thrush family found in Britain.
It is mainly grey-brown and has larger breast spots than the Song Thrush and white tips to the outer-tail feathers.
Like other thrushes its main diet consists of invertebrates such as worms, molluscs and insects but it will occasionally join in with Fieldfares and Blackbirds to consume fallen fruit especially during hard winters.
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 Turdus philomelos
Its brown plumage and speckled chest is typical of a thrush.
The Song Thrush, however, is smaller, more neatly proportioned, with warm brown upperparts and a rather dark face.
It lacks the white tips to the corners of the tail and the white edges to many of the wing feathers shown by a Mistle Thrush.
www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Turdus_philomelos.htm   (245 words)

  
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The Mistle Thrush, or Missel Thrush, is bigger and paler than a Song Thrush and has bolder spotting on its breast and belly.
The breast and flanks are a pale buff with bold fl spots.
The Mistle Thrush's diet is the same as the Song Thrush's: worms, insects and berries, but not snails.
www.thebirdtable.co.uk /birdid/mistlethrush.htm   (137 words)

  
 Mistle Thrush: Recent News
Mistle Thrush will have a track on the upcoming Bedazzled Compilation CD, Woke Up Smiling (#BDZ25).
The title will be "She is a Flower," and the song will be recorded and produced by Roger Lavallee of The Curtain Society.
Mistle Thrush is scheduled to release a full-length CD on Bedazzled Records, (#BDZ26), title to be announced, in September 1995.
www.gweep.net /gima/mt/news.html   (266 words)

  
 Thrush Movies
"The Thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds".
Bird is hopping around and feeding in the leaf litter.
A male walking and feeding on the ground.
www.junglewalk.com /video/thrush-movie.htm   (100 words)

  
 The Noise Archives: Mistle Thrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Noise: As I understand it, Mistle Thrush has been on the scene for a respectable amount of time and have built quite a name for yourselves as a goth/ postpunk band, but have recently been exploring the rootsy rock elements inherent in your sound.
They were poppy but weren’t in-your-face dance music, but I heard their sound as a happy medium to strive for.
Check out Mistle Thrush at www.mistlethrush.com and at their CD release party at The Middle East Downstairs on 1/18/02.
www.thenoise-boston.com /features/217_mistle_thrush.asp   (1396 words)

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