Photo share: Varied Thrush

A view of a Varied Thrush perched on a branch near the visitor center at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge located in California. ~ photo by Dave!Menke!

Rare winter resident in Michigan from October to April. Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology website AllAboutBirds.orgwrites that the “large, robin-like thrush of the Pacific Northwest, the Varied Thrush, is a characteristic bird of the mature, dark coniferous forests. Wandering individuals turn up regularly far from home, wintering around feeders in the mid-western states.”

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