What fruits do thrushes like to eat? Explained clearly in one article
The thrush is a medium-sized bird of the class Aves and the family Timaliidae. The upper body is olive-colored, the crown to the upper back is brown with black longitudinal stripes, and the eye ring is white. Do you know what fruits thrushes like to eat?
1. What fruits do thrushes like to eat
Thrushes like to eat fruits such as apples, bananas, raspberries and peaches. They inhabit the scrub on hills and the scrub or bamboo groves near villages, are alert and timid, often forage in the grass under the forest, and are not good at flying long distances.
2. The thrush's living habits
1. Daily activities
A resident bird, it lives in mountain forest areas, often active alone or in pairs, and occasionally forms small flocks. It is timid and alert by nature, usually hiding among dense shrubs and weeds, likes to flit and perch among the scrub, and from time to time jumps and flies among the branches. If startled, it immediately drops down under the scrub, then escapes elsewhere along the ground; when pressed, it also takes off directly, and flies quickly, but after flying a short distance it lands again. Its flight is not sustained, and it generally does not fly far. It often forages in the grass under the forest and is not good at flying long distances.
2. Voice
It is good at singing, singing almost continuously from morning to night, with a melodious and pleasant song. Especially in the breeding season, the male bird is particularly good at singing, and its song is even more melodious, pleasant and varied, with the ending note somewhat like “mo-gi-yiu-”, so the ancients called its call “ruyi ruyi”.
3. Diet
It is omnivorous, but throughout the year its food is mainly insects, especially in the breeding season, most of which are agricultural and forestry pests, including locusts, stink bugs, pine caterpillars, scarab beetles, larvae of the moth family Notodontidae of the order Lepidoptera and larvae of other moths, all of which are its prey. Plant foods are mainly seeds, fruits, grass seeds, wild fruits, strawberries, etc.
During the breeding season, the male bird often hides alone among weeds and branches and is extremely good at warbling; its voice is very loud, and its song is melodious and very pleasant. It is a famous cage bird.