A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers are declining seriously, especially on farmland making it a Red List species. It is smaller and browner than a Mistle Thrush with smaller spotting. Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguishes it from singing Blackbirds.

Woods, hedgerows, parks and gardens across the UK - wherever there are bushes and trees

All year round

It likes to eat snails, which it breaks into by smashing them against a stone, referred to as its anvil, with a flick of the head.

Common and widespread

A common breeding bird in Leicestershire and Rutland