Song Thrush
These small warm brown birds have spots on their upper breast that are shaped like upside-down hearts.
They eat, amongst other things, snails, which they will smash repeatedly against a stone to extract the molusccy meat within.
They are well known for repeating song phrases sometimes three or four times.
As Robert Browning wrote:
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
The male's song at dawn includes a range of over a hundred different phrases making it one of the richest songs of all the chorus choir.
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Chorus Choir—Dawn Chorus
Celebrating the birds heard during the Dawn Chorus.
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Dawn Chorus—Dawn Chorus, 2016, Part 1
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