Appearance: Swainson’s thrush is about 7″ long. Their upper parts are brown and their underparts are white with spots. Their dark eyes have a buffy eye ring as well as flanks.
Diet: Insects and fruit.
Feeder food: Unlikely to visit a feeder.
Habitat: Forests.
Nesting:
- Nest: Swanson’s thrush builds a deep, compact cup-style nest and is placed in a small tree about 2-7′ up.
- Broods: They have 1 brood/season
- Clutch: 1-5 eggs/brood
- Egg color: Eggs are blue or greenish-blue with reddish-brown speckles
- Egg size: 0.8 – 1 inches by 0.6 – 0.7 inches
- Incubation: 10-14 days and fledglings leave the nest at about 14 days.
Migration: Swainson’s thrushes are migrators. They migrate north in the springtime to breed and raise their young. In the fall, they migrate far south into southern Mexico, Central America, and South America for the winter.
Breeding range: Alaska, west coasts of Washington, Oregon & California, Idaho, western Montana & Wyoming, northeast Nevada, central Utah, central Colorado, New England, and all Canadian provinces except Nunavut.
Winter range: Southern Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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