How to Identify Mistle Thrush Song - Episode 5 of Birdsong Lessons with Lucy Lapwing!
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- How to identify the song of the mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) - with comparisons to blackbird & song thrush.
British Birdsong Lessons with Lucy Lapwing.
Episode 5: Mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
Learn how to identify the melancholy & whistling song of the mistle thrush.
Thank you to Tony Whitehead for his recording.
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Brilliant, the best explanation I have come across, I even had time to take some notes.
The way that helped me learn the mistle thrush was to imagine it's saying "I'm a care bear". Great video as always Lucy!
Thanks Lucy...what a great series, as I am still learning the different songs of our birds, out in the woods, and I'm particularly enjoying your humorous descriptions and ways to remember. Thank you so much, for putting this together ❤
Thank you for the tips. Found 2 mistle thrush by sound today for the first time when usually I just rely on sight. I was well pleased with myself.
Loved that, first 4 I'm reasonably confident on, so this is the first new one to learn. I think that might be the mystery bird I've heard on my daily walk - will listen closely tomorrow - fingers crossed.
This is hilarious and adorable and educational. Love this series!!!
Learning and enjoying so much from this series, you are amazing at explaining! Thank you!
I'm glad you've finally got a CZcams channel! Subscribed as soon as I found out.
That's such a funny comparison! Love these videos.
I've started watching your videos this evening while crocheting a blanket - incredibly relaxing after a stressful day at work, I love how you describe all the songs. I feel so calm now 😊. Also: snap! for the simba hot water bottle 😁
Great tips as always, the whingebag Mistle thrush might be my spirit bird.
Awesome video 👍🏻
I recognised a Mistle Thrush from song only yesterday, then spotted it at the top of a tall tree as always. The Blackbird always ends his phrases with a little mutter, but the MT only rarely does this and never consistently. To me, MT song is a cross between Blackbird and Song Thrush, as it sometimes includes a short repeated phrase (yesterday's bird did), but (again) never as consistently as ST.
I have just stumbled on your series this morning, lying in bed having awoken far too early and listening to a very loud songster right outside my bedroom window. It turns out it was a chaffinch - thank you @Lucy_Lapwing Are you planning on any more.? Your tips are so helpful in distinguishing birds from other similar ones. I live in a small town with a beautiful river running through the centre which attracts quite a number of birds that, to my untrained ear, look and sound so similar, I’d love to continue my bird learning journey with you.
The Blackbird song consists of rising notes that end in a few scratchy sounds. The Mistle Thrush song doesn't rise. I think that's what makes it sound more grumpy.
Fab video!
Great videos Lucy. Really engaging and informative. Any chance you could do one on the Fieldfare which is another of the thrush family and often confused with the other varieties. Lot’s are visiting us at this time of year?
Wow, I'm so glad I've found this channel. The intro is really swish. I'm not sure I'll be able to tell the difference easily but I'll keep an ear out.
Thanks. I’ve never known how to identify the mistle thrush. Are there as many of them around as song thrushes?
I'm crap at these kinda calls but am learning from this the pause business. Mistle Thrush call sounds like Missiles and i love the smell of napalm on a dawn chorus 😉
I put your playlist on, and episode 4 is missing!
Apologies Keith - looks like I'd missed ticking a box! It's added now :)
True information about Mistle thrush: czcams.com/video/TLHR3JTzMqo/video.html
Great video as always, you didn't mention the old nickname 'Stormcock' 😀
I think of mistle thrush song as a cooler song than a blackbird, like a ribbon in gentle water
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I slashed my wrists waiting fir the video through all the ads which didn't skip
I'm really enjoying these, Lucy, just as I enjoy your tweets etc I'm no expert on these things but I wonder if your videos would benefit from a different microphone set up as your voice is coming across a bit muffled and 'boomy' and therefore not as clear as it might be.
You’re funny
If you know a blackbird (most people do) than you also know when it’s not a blackbird . And a Song Thrush loud repetitive song is also quite unmistakable. So if it isn’t either it must be a Mistle Thrush, is my logic. Heard one today.
I think of the Mistle thrush as the most boring and least imaginative of the 3, the song is short and pretty much the same every time.