Hermit Thrush

Description:

Spotted this Hermit Thrush in the sculpture garden at the San Francisco de Young Museum. It was perched on a bench.

Habitat:

Sculpture garden at the San Francisco de Young Museum.

Notes:

The Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) is a medium-sized North American thrush. It is not very closely related to the other North American migrant species of Catharus, but rather to the Mexican Russet Nightingale-thrush. Their breeding habitat is coniferous or mixed woods across Canada, Alaska, and the northeastern and western United States. They make a cup nest on the ground or relatively low in a tree. Hermit Thrushes migrate to wintering grounds in the southern United States and south to Central America but some remain in northern coastal US states and southern Ontario. Although they usually only breed in forests, Hermit Thrushes will sometimes winter in parks and wooded suburban neighborhoods. They are very rare vagrants to western Europe. It has also occurred as a vagrant in northeast Asia. They forage on the forest floor, also in trees or shrubs, mainly eating insects and berries. Wikipedia