Hermit Thrush
Introduction
Resembling a small Song Thrush, Hermit Thrush is an extremely rare visitor from North America. Almost all of the handful of records come from the second half of October.
East of the Rocky Mountains the Hermit Thrush usually nests on the ground. In the West, it is more likely to nest in trees.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Size
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution. Most records of this Transatlantic vagrant are on the Western Isles, Northern Isles and Scilly Isles.
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
This species has been too rarely reported to BirdTrack during 2011–22 to properly assess seasonality.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Turdidae
- Scientific name: Catharus guttatus
- Authority: Pallas, 1811
- BTO 5-letter code: HERTH
- Euring code number: 11760
Alternate species names
- Catalan: griveta ermitana
- Czech: drozd rezavoocasý
- Danish: Eremitdrossel
- Dutch: Heremietlijster
- Estonian: erakrästas
- Finnish: erakkorastas
- French: Grive solitaire
- German: Einsiedler-Musendrossel
- Hungarian: pettyes fülemülerigó
- Icelandic: Dulþröstur
- Italian: Tordo di Pallas
- Latvian: vientulais strazds
- Lithuanian: trumpasnapis strazdas vienišius
- Norwegian: Eremittskogtrost
- Polish: drozdek samotny
- Portuguese: tordo-eremita
- Slovak: drozd malý
- Slovenian: samotni cikovtnik
- Spanish: Zorzalito colirrufo
- Swedish: eremitskogstrast
