Sentence examples for fieldfare from inspiring English sources

Representative true thrushes are species of the genus Turdus, which include the blackbird, fieldfare, ouzel, and redwing of Europe, as well as the American robin.

Both are strikingly colourful, the redwing like a smaller song thrush with a creamy eyestripe and russet flanks, the fieldfare burlier, like a resprayed mistle thrush with a grey head and rump and a chestnut back – that's what identifies it when you see a flock of them in a field – and when you get up close, an exquisite throat of yellow-orange sprinkled with black dots.

The fieldfare is larger; its grey head and rump give it a more considered and sage appearance.

I was the only person left outdoors, but was determined to capture the feel of the day, while showing the character of the fieldfare, often hovering to pick berries.

On cue several fieldfare look-a-likes – mistle thrushes with black-speckled mustard-coloured breasts – swoop by, though they ignore the berries.

To be honest at first I was more excited about a picture I'd taken earlier, which I had thought was a fieldfare – a type of thrush.

Birds include species of grouse and woodpeckers and pine grosbeaks, crossbills, siskins, redpolls, red-spotted bluethroats, rubythroats, redwings, fieldfares (medium-sized thrushes), nutcrackers, and Siberian jays.

(Blackbirds, song and mistle thrushes are residents; redwings and fieldfares are winter visitors; ring ouzels are summer migrants like swallows).

"We can expect to see some more unusual visitors to gardens, particularly redwings, fieldfares and tree sparrows that are struggling to find food elsewhere, Dr Avery said.

I saw my first redwing of the autumn at the weekend, and as many as a million may already be in Britain now; the fieldfares follow slightly behind.

The song birds were even more in evidence: dozens of blackbirds and robins (which you might think are commonplace, but these were blackbirds and robins which had just crossed the North Sea) and, especially, flocks of the other winter thrushes which come to us from Scandinavia, the redwings and the fieldfares.