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Fieldfare

Turdus pilaris

Fieldfare
Денис Лаврусік (Wikimedia Commons) · CC0

Sjaggeren er en spurvefugl i familien af drosselfugle. Den er med sine 26 centimeter på størrelse med en solsort.

Field marks

Large, long-tailed whose head, nape and are slate-grey, the back dark brown, the tail blackish and the golden breast marked with black arrowheads. White underwings flash in flight.

Can be confused with

  • Mistle Thrush — Mistle Thrush is uniformly grey-brown above — without the Fieldfare’s grey-head/brown-back contrast — and has round, not arrowhead, spotting.

Voice

The flight call is a chattering "tsak tsak tsuk" — the source of its Danish name. The song is feeble and scratchy.

Facts

Wingspan

42 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

thrushes

Turdidae

Read more

This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:

  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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