song thrush

American  

noun

1. a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.

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song thrush British  

noun

1. a common Old World thrush, Turdus philomelos, that has a brown back and spotted breast and is noted for its song

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Etymology

Origin of song thrush

First recorded in 1660–70

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Example Sentences

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song thrush

"If you lose garden snails, you lose the song thrush," she warned.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He put his counterfeits, painted and marked like the originals, into the nests of the song thrush, the blackbird, and the grasshopper warbler, and in no case was the imposition detected.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

But this new antagonist was no half-frozen, half-starved Continental song thrush.

From The Way of the Wild by Harry Rountree

In the Trossachs, in Scotland, I followed a song thrush about for a long time, attracted by its peculiar song.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

Like the song thrush it finds a determined enemy in the magpie, against which it often defends itself with success.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

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