Thrushes at autumn dining table
Photos: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Fieldfare
| Fieldfare |
Hallrästas or paskrästas
|
Turdus pilaris |
| Redwing |
Vainurästas
|
Turdus iliacus |
The fieldfare is a large and many-coloured bird, whereas the redwing is the smallest of our thrushes but also the most numerous and most often seen. The fieldfares travel in flocks to their wintering places, and they move by night as well as by day. Usually the thrushes that pass through here will be gone by the end of October; until then they fatten up on berries from rowans, hawthorns ...
The male and female of the fieldfare look alike and on Arne’s photo the characteristics of the birds show well – no more description needed.
Typical for the redwings is the marked off-white eyebrow streak and the rust-red sides. On the ground they move as thrushes do - hopping.
A quite large number of fieldfares stay for the winter, even during the hard winter of last year, always near apple orchards, but in contrast only very few redwings.
Redwing
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