song thrush

American  

noun

1. a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.

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song thrush British  

noun

1. a common Old World thrush, Turdus philomelos, that has a brown back and spotted breast and is noted for its song

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Etymology

Origin of song thrush

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

Like the song thrush it finds a determined enemy in the magpie, against which it often defends itself with success.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

When he appears in the ballads as the merle, bracketed with his cousin the mavis, the song thrush, it is far easier to recognize him as the master singer that he is.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore

A song thrush on a budding tree near the window trilled forth his merry lay, and the maiden listened with light heart.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster

As if to deny that, Bobby suddenly shot down the slope in answer to a cry of alarm from a song thrush.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

He put his counterfeits, painted and marked like the originals, into the nests of the song thrush, the blackbird, and the grasshopper warbler, and in no case was the imposition detected.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John