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title: "Mistle Thrush"
description: "Turdus viscivorus — Uccelli. The mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) is a bird common to much of Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/mistle-thrush
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mistle Thrush

> Turdus viscivorus — Uccelli. The mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) is a bird common to much of Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa.

- Scientific name: *Turdus viscivorus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 27433
- Wikidata: [Q178942](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178942)
- iNaturalist taxon: [12735](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12735)

## Names

- en: Mistle Thrush
- de: Misteldrossel
- es: Zorzal Charlo
- fr: Grive draine
- nl: Grote lijster
- pt: Tordoveia
- pl: Paszkot

## Countries with the most observations

GB (4978), RU (3229), DE (2064), FR (1886), ES (1815), IT (1257), AT (1154), UA (797), IE (453), CH (452), CZ (431), PT (388)

## Summary

The mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus) is a bird common to much of Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa. It is a year-round resident in a large part of its range, but northern and eastern populations migrate south for the winter, often in small flocks. It is a large thrush with pale grey-brown upper parts, a greyish-white chin and throat, and black spots on its pale yellow and off-white under parts. The sexes are similar in plumage, and its three subspecies show only minimal differences. The male has a loud, far-carrying song which is delivered even in wet and windy weather, earning the bird the old name of stormcock…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistle_thrush

## Photo

![Mistle Thrush](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mistle-thrush/medium.jpg)

Photo: Charlie Farrell · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105807170

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mistle-thrush?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).