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Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius   [JF Gmelin, 1789]
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Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae
BTO Codes: VT, EURING No: 11720
Number in Britain: Fewer than 20 records
Conservation Status:
UK: Not Assessed
European: Not evaluated
Global: Least Concern
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Status in UK: (A)  Accidental
Subspecies: undetermined recorded in Britain (of 4 subsp. in the world)
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Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 38 cm Weight: M/F: 85 g    
Scientific name from: Gr.: ixos=mistletoe + -orius=belonging to and L.: naevius=spotted
World Distribution: BREEDS: nw North America, WINTERS: south to sw North America
Habitat: Wet coniferous forest
Diet: arthropods, fruit, seeds esp acorns
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Records and Distribution
First Record: Cornwall, 1982 (Madge, S.C. et al. 1990. British Birds 83:187-194)
Total Number of Records (1950-2007): 1 Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in: Too few records
Most Recent County Records:
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   South-west England: Cornwall (1982),
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Other Names
Previously Zoothera naevius
Gaelic: Welsh:
Danish: Blårygget drossel Dutch: Bonte lijster
Finnish: French: Grive ā collier
German: Halsbanddrossel Hungarian: Szalagos rogķ
Icelandic: Barrūröstur Irish:
Italian: Tordo vario Norwegian: Blåryggtrost
Polish: Drozdon zlotogardly Portuguese: Tordo-de-colar
Spanish: Zorzal abigarrada Swedish: Blåryggad trast
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See Also:
All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
Wikipedia entry
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These data should be cited as:
Robinson, R.A. (2005) BirdFacts: profiles of birds occurring in Britain & Ireland (v1.24, June 2009). BTO Research Report 407, BTO, Thetford (http://www.bto.org/birdfacts)

 

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