Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
THE SONG BIRDS
THE THRUSHES
Olive-backed Thrush
Known to the residents of eastern United States mainly as a migrant, the charming little Olive-backed Thrush (H. ustulata swainsonii) slips through in silent little parties to its summer home in the coniferous forests of the north, though a few stop to breed in the higher Alleghanies and the mountains of New England; it spends the winter in Cuba, Central America, and northern South America. During its brief sojourn in the south it frequents especially the borders of clearings, where it is wont to select some point of vantage, preferably a dead tree-top, from which it pours forth its ringing song. The nest is placed in a low tree and but four or five feet from the ground; the eggs, usually three or four, are greenish blue spotted with brownish.
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