Editing Fieldfare (section)

==Taxonomy==
Nearly 90 species of medium to large thrushes are in the genus ''[[Turdus]]'', characterised by rounded heads, longish, pointed wings, and usually melodious songs. Although two European thrushes, the [[song thrush]] and [[mistle thrush]], are early offshoots from the Eurasian lineage of ''Turdus'' thrushes after they spread north from Africa, the fieldfare is descended from ancestors that had colonised the [[Caribbean]] islands from Africa and subsequently reached Europe from there.<ref name= reilly>{{cite book | last1 = Reilly | first1 = John | title = The Ascent of Birds| series = Pelagic Monographs | publisher = Pelagic | year = 2018| location = Exeter | pages = 221–225 | isbn =  978-1-78427-169-5}}</ref>

The fieldfare was described by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in his landmark 1758 [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'']] under its current [[scientific name]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=C. | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. | publisher=Holmiae. (Laurentii Salvii). | year=1758| volume=v.1 | quote = T. rectricibus nigris: extimis margine interiore apice albicantibus, capite uropygioque cano. |page=168 |language=la | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727075 }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as Europe but this was restricted to Sweden by the German ornithologist [[Ernst Hartert]] in 1910.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Hartert | first=Ernst | author-link=Ernst Hartert | year=1910 | title=Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna | volume=1 | language=German | location=Berlin | publisher=R. Friedländer und Sohn | page=646 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14030463 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology  | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=203 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486392 }}</ref> The name ''Turdus pilaris'' comes from two separate [[Latin]] words for {{gloss|thrush}}.<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n306/mode/1up 306], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n393/mode/1up 393]}}</ref> No subspecies are recognised.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Thrushes | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/thrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=5 February 2024 }}</ref>

The [[English language|English]] [[common name]] ''fieldfare'' dates back to at least the 11th century. The [[Old English language|Old English]] word {{lang|ang|feldefare}} perhaps meant {{gloss|traveller through the fields}},<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.finedictionary.com/fieldfare.html |title=Fieldfare |work=Fine Dictionary |access-date=2013-09-13}}</ref> but it has also been suggested it may derive from Old English {{lang|ang|fealu fearh}}, {{gloss|grey piglet}}, related to an old [[Welsh language|Welsh]] name for the species {{lang|cy|socen lwyd}} with the same meaning.<ref name=Lockwood>Lockwood, W. B. (1984). ''The Oxford Book of British Bird Names''. Oxford University Press {{ISBN|0-19-214155-4}}.</ref>