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wood thrush
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wood thrush

One of the 11 species of thrushes (in the genus Hylocichla, or Catharus) called nightingale thrushes because of their rich songs. H. mustelina is common in eastern U.S. broadleaf forests; it is 8 in. (20 cm) long and has drab, spotted plumage and a rusty-colored head.



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Nesting Foraging Common Name Scientific Name Guild Guild Acadian flycatcher Empidonax virescens T AI Wood thrush Hylocichla mustelina S GI Yellow-billed cuckoo Coccyzus americanus T AI Yellow-throated vireo Vireo flavifrons T AI *T=tree, S=shrub, G=ground, A=arboreal, I=insectivore Table 4.
On 2 February 1991, while conducting a mammal survey at Fort Benning, Chattahoochee County, Georgia, one of us (Scharninghausen) found an eastern hermit thrush, Hylocichla guttate faxoni, dead with a female eastern smooth earth snake, Virginia valeriae valeriae, protruding from its mouth.
ustulatus (Nuttall), Swainson's I O thrush Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin), I C wood thrush Ixoreus naevius (Gmelin), varied I R thrush Myadestes townsendi (Audubon), I R Townsend's solitaire Oenanthe oenanthe (Linnaeus), I R northern wheatear Sialia currucoides (Bechstein), I R mountain bluebird S.
 
 
 
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