mistle thrush

NOUN
  1. large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries
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How To Use mistle thrush In A Sentence

  • If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish.
  • Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
  • Several varieties were all growing on Gisela 5 rootstock, which keeps the trees compact, and under frames of netting to keep out the birds – mainly blackbirds, though this year mistle thrushes too. Country diary: West Lambrook, Somerset
  • The stormcock, a fine and appropriate alternative name for the mistle thrush, will defend a berried bush, especially in hard weather, against other birds of the thrush family, blackbirds, song thrushes; and our winter visitors the redwings and fieldfares.
  • The Mistle Thrush had built her nest on top of a downpipe, blocking the water's passage and causing the gutter to flood. Archive 2009-06-01
  • My bird list included long-tailed tit, greenfinch, mistle thrush, collared dove, pied wagtail, great tit and a particularly coloured male bullfinch.
  • Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
  • For the third year running a mistle thrush has chosen an amber traffic light in Salford to rear her young.
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