About
the Fieldfare
The Fieldfare is a winter visitor
to Britain and Ireland, arriving in varying numbers from breeding
grounds in Scandinavia and beyond (see map).
Fieldfares eat invertebrates
and fruit, the latter being especially important during the
winter months.
The English name comes from the
Anglo Saxon word 'feldfare', which means traveller of the
fields.
Fieldfares wintering in Britain
this year might spend next winter somewhere else entirely
(blue dots on the map).
Small numbers of Fieldfares have
bred in Britain, the first nesting on Orkney back in 1967.
Fieldfares may defend berry-bushes
and piles of apples in a similar manner to the Mistle Thrush.
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