Redwing

Name: Redwing

Scientific name: Turdus iliacus

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 50

What are nature stars?

About: A small thrush, about 20cm long. Dark brown above, with a white belly streaked with black and with bright red flanks and underwing. Redwings have a very smart face pattern, with a white eyebrow stripe and white moustache surrounding dark brown cheeks and a

How to identify: Similar to Song Thrush, but with a bold white eyebrow stripe and bright red flank patch spreading under the wing.

Where: A widespread winter visitor

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 50
• Agility: 60
• Rarity: 40
• Cute factor: 50
• Traveller: 80

Fantastic fact: A tiny population of Redwings nests in the far north of Scotland, but most of our birds come from Iceland and Scandinavia.

Photograph credit: Ómar Runólfsson