Medium-sized bird (approx 22 cm or 8.5 in). Dark brown upperparts and underparts of ocher tones in the breast and lighter towards the belly, with a dark stippling that seems to form a moustachial stripe in the neck. It is distinguished from other thrushes by not having any eyebrows. In flight, underside of the wings of ocher tones.
Woodland environment and Scrubland
In its breeding territories this bird uses forests with abundant understory and shrubs. In Malaga it spends the winter in wooded countryside, being especially abundant in olive groves. Also present in Mediterranean thickets, groves and humid forests.
Wintering bird in the province. It makes two annual layings of 4 to 6 eggs. Nest in trees. Insectivore in spring; in Malaga the Song Thrush behaves mostly as a frugivore that benefits from berries and fruits, especially olives. It also consumes earthworms, snails and other insects.
Common species in the Malaga fields and frequent in many stages of the Great Path. It can be observed, for example and among others, in stages 2, 4, 7, 8, 10 to 20 and 22 to 26.
"Thrush anvils" are stones that the thrushes usually go to when they capture a snail. On them they beat the animal to break its shell and eat it. In Malaga thrushes are also known, aside from their Spanish common name “zorzales”, as “tordos” or “malvises”. The name “zorzal” comes from the Andalusian Arabic and it seems to be related to the verb “zarzara”, which may refer to the speckling of its breast or to the gurgling of its song.
- Altos de Hondonero
- El Cerro de Santi Petri
- El Chorro (Paraje Natural del Desfiladero de Los Gaitanes)
- Fuente de los 100 Caños
- Genal and Guadiaro rivers junction
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 09. Periana - Riogordo
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 04. Torrox - Nerja
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 05. Nerja - Frigiliana
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 07. Cómpeta - Canillas de Aceituno
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 08. Canillas de Aceituno - Periana
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 10. Riogordo - Alfarnate
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 11. Alfarnate - Villanueva del Rosario
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 12. Villanueva del Rosario - Archidona
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 13. Archidona - Villanueva de Tapia
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 14. Villanueva de Tapia - Villanueva de Algaidas
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 15. Villanueva de Algaidas - Cuevas Bajas
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 16. Cuevas Bajas - Alameda
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 17. Alameda - Fuente de Piedra
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 18. Fuente de Piedra - Campillos
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 19. Campillos - Embalses del Guadalhorce
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 21. Estación de El Chorro (Álora) - Carratraca - Ardales
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 22. Ardales - El Burgo
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 23. El Burgo - Ronda
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 25. Estación de Benaoján - Jimera de Líbar
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 26. Jimera de Líbar - Benalauría
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 27. Benalauría - Genalguacil
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 28. Genalguacil - Casares
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 29. Casares - Estepona
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 31. Marbella - Ojén
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 32. Ojén - Mijas
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 33. Mijas - Benalmádena
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 34. Benalmádena - Alhaurín de la Torre
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 35. Alhaurín de la Torre - Málaga
- Lagunas de Campillos
- Llanos de Líbar
- Refugio de Juanar
- Río Jorox
- Sierra del Padrastro
- Tajos del Fraile, Doña Ana y Gómer
- Valley of the Guadalhorce River
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