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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:06 pm 
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Ah, bliss - corker of a Dusk Chorus outside here! Song Thrush belting out its melodies with gusto. Accompanied by Blackbirds, Dunnocks and the occasional Chaffinch and Song Thrush-mimicking Starlings!

Revealed something I'd not known of before - the Song Thrush (which, as I type, is still rocking the airwaves; it's been in full song for just over an hour) called, and a pair of Mistle Thrushes replied to it! Is this a usual occurrence? Have Mistle/Song Thrush hybrids ever happened?

Darkness will soon silence the recital......... for now...........

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:27 pm 
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Silence has now fallen - that was exquisitely beautiful!

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:27 pm 
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I believe there have been attempts to cross-breed mistle and song thrushes in aviculture, but without results.

What would the song of such a hybrid sound like?

Finches used to be regularly cross-bred by bird fanciers in times gone by, but softbills were always more of a challenge.

Having said that, was there not a time in the early 1980s (in Barton, I think) when a wild hybrid swallow/house martin was trapped during ringing project?

I seem to recall publicity, including photographs, in the Scunthorpe Telegraph. There was perhaps a detailed report in a back edition of the Lincolnshire Bird Report.


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