Editing Song thrush (section)

==Description==
[[File:Song thrush (Turdus philomelos philomelos).jpg|thumb|left|Song thrush in Slovenia]]
[[File:Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) in flight.jpg|upright|left|thumb|In flight]]
The song thrush (as represented by the nominate subspecies ''T. p. philomelos'') is {{convert|20|to|23.5|cm|in|frac=4|abbr=off}} in length and weighs {{convert|50|to|107|g|oz|abbr=off|frac=8}}. The sexes are similar, with plain brown backs and neatly black-spotted cream or yellow-buff underparts, becoming paler on the belly. The underwing is warm yellow, the bill is yellowish and the legs and feet are pink. The upperparts of this species become colder in tone from west to east across the breeding range from [[Sweden]] to Siberia. The juvenile resembles the adult, but has buff or orange streaks on the back and wing [[covert (feather)|coverts]].<ref name="Clement" />

The most similar European thrush species is the [[redwing]] (''T. iliacus''), but that bird has a strong white [[supercilium]], red flanks, and shows a red underwing in flight. The [[mistle thrush]] (''T. viscivorus'') is much larger and has white tail corners, and the [[Chinese thrush]] (''T. mupinensis''), although much more similar in plumage, has black face markings and does not overlap in range.<ref name="Clement" />

The song thrush has a short, sharp ''tsip'' call, replaced on migration by a thin high ''seep'', similar to the redwing's call but shorter. The alarm call is a ''chook-chook'' becoming shorter and more strident with increasing danger. The male's song, given from trees, rooftops or other elevated perches, is a loud clear run of musical phrases, repeated two to four times, ''filip filip filip codidio codidio quitquiquit tittit tittit tereret tereret tereret'', and interspersed with grating notes and mimicry. It is given mainly from February to June by the Outer Hebridean race, but from November to July by the more widespread subspecies.<ref name="Clement" /> For its weight, this species has one of the loudest bird calls.<ref name="Brackenbury 1979" />

An individual male may have a repertoire of more than 100&nbsp;phrases,<ref name="Devoogd et al 1993" /> many copied from its parents and neighbouring birds. Mimicry may include the imitation of man-made items like telephones,<ref name="Slater 1983" /> and the song thrush will also repeat the calls of captive birds, including exotics such as the [[white-faced whistling duck]].<ref name="Clement" />