The mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) is a bird common to much of Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is a year-round resident in much of its range, but northern and eastern populations migrate south for the winter, often in small flocks. It is a large thrush with pale grey-brown upperparts, a greyish-white chin and throat, and black spots on its pale yellow and off-white underparts. The sexes are similar in plumage, and its three subspecies show only minimal differences. The male has a loud, far-carrying song which is delivered even in wet and windy weather, earning the bird the old name of "stormcock".
Found in open woods, parks, hedges and cultivated land, the mistle thrush feeds on a wide variety of invertebrates, seeds and berries. Its preferred fruits including those of the mistletoe, holly and yew. Mistletoe is favoured where it is available, and this is reflected in the thrush's English and scientific names; the plant, a parasitic species, benefits from its seeds being excreted by the thrush onto branches where they can germinate. In winter, a mistle thrush will vigorously defend mistletoe clumps or a holly tree as a food reserve for when times are hard.
Mistle Thrush was a female-fronted 1990s alternative rock band based in Boston, Massachusetts. They've been described by the Boston Herald as The Cure-meets-Fairport Convention. Steve Morse of The Boston Globe wrote that Valerie Forgione, the band's singer, has "some of the most versatile pipes since the dream-pop heyday of Kate Bush" and that the "band remains a local treasure". During the band's heyday, their songs frequently charted in CMJ's Top 200. According to the band's website, they're on hiatus but their last album was released in February 2002. In January 2011, they reunited to play their first concert since 2003. Forgione's current project is called Van Elk.
History
Formed in 1993 by guitarists Scott Patalano and Brad Rigney, bassist Ruben Layman, drummer Todd Demma and Forgione (ex-Funeral Party, Twelve Tone Failure), Mistle Thrush took their name from a bird that eats the poisonous-to-most berries of the mistletoe plant. Generally identified as goth—although the term, as The Phoenix's Brett Milano later put it, "never quite suited them"—quickly found a home at Washington, D.C.'s Bedazzled Records, who released the band's debut 7" in 1994. Later that same year, they released a 5-song CD entitled Agus Amàrach.
It might be best to leave it there, for mistletoe took its name from the Old English for 'poop twig', thanks to the plant's seeds being propagated by the droppings of the mistle thrush ... It always helps to have just the right word for the occasion ... .
without money--the scent of spring in a wallet. --Marek Kozubek (Bangkok, Thailand). * * *. reading the menu. the donburi. with local (p)rice. --T.D. Ginting (Medan, Indonesia). * * *. springtime. the sun conveying its gold. through bank windows ... mistle thrush.
On my commute through the park I listen for robins, wrens, dunnocks, sparrows, long-tailed tits, blackcaps, blackbirds, starlings, chiffchaffs, mistle thrushes and redstarts; making sure to keep an eye out for frogs crossing the path ...Share ... .
The size of a mistle thrush, hoopoes, which emit a smell of rotting meat, can usually be seen when they overshoot their more common European nesting sites when migrating north from Africa... The size of a mistle thrush.
The first Sunday in May is NationalDawn Chorus Day when nature’s avian orchestra is in full voice ... In May you’d be able to hear nuthatches song thrushes and mistle thrushes along with willow warblers — a finer, more delicate trill than the chaffinch.
Northumberland... On this bright morning, a mistle thrush flings its clear song on to the breeze. Wild garlic shines emerald beneath the trees and woodrush thrusts through fallen beech leaves. Other signs of spring ... ....
A hare springs away over the swell of the hill as we drop down into the wood. On this bright morning, a mistle thrush flings its clear song on to the breeze. Wild garlic shines emerald beneath the trees and woodrush thrusts through fallen beech leaves.
But I also enjoy the Rock ‘n’ RollRumble’s definition of rock ... “Locals,” Roser ... Live, this could be a killer set closer ... Ex-Mistle Thrush singer/songwriter Valerie Forgione has taken two (three? five? a hundred?) steps forward with Lovina Falls ... ....
Although some sing during winter (my local mistle thrush spent all January sending out curt, curlicued phrases through sleet and rain and fog) the lengthening days and rising temperatures fuel ...
Tunstall Valley, Weardale. Where greylag geese normally swim in 10ft-deep water, chaffinches are pecking among the green shoots ... Then, from the top branches of an alder, a burst of song from a mistle thrush , another early nester ... water ... ....
Tunstall reservoir is a favourite place to visit in March, to look and listen for spring’s progress ... Then, from the top branches of an alder, a burst of song from a mistle thrush, another early nester ... water ... The change in hydrology is temporary ... .
As I fix the fence between the baleful, far-seeming and romantic tones of a mistle thrush on one side, and the warmer, repeated phrases of a song thrush on the other, another sound comes into my consciousness.
Living up to that old country name, the mistle thrush cast down fluty one-liners from the wind-battered treetops, dispensing a mellifluous answer to the tone-deaf huff and puff.
Living up to that old country name, the mistle thrush cast down fluty one-liners from the wind-battered treetops, dispensing a mellifluous answer to the tone-deaf huff and puff ... Is it a thrush, or is it a mimicking starling? .
The species belongs to the thrush family, like another symbol of Christmas — the mistle thrush. Southern Utah is also home to Swainson and hermit thrushes, DWR wildlife biologist Danielle Finlayson told St.
