Hermit Thrush Images, Facts and Information:
Catharus guttatus
- Hermit Thrushes are small thrushes with rufous tails, white eye rings, black spotted white underparts with olive-brown to reddish or gray-brown upperparts.
- Most Hermit Thrushes migrate.
- Hermit Thrushes prefer habitats that include mixed and coniferous forests, during migration they can be found in thickets and deciduous woodlands.
- Hermit Thrushes eat insects, fruits, forbs and small invertebrates.
- Hermit Thrushes lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 12 to 13 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of thrushes can be called a “mutation” or a “hermitage” of thrushes.
- Hermit Thrushes can live to be more than 10 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Hermit Thrush photos.
Mia McPherson
Hermit Thrush with a Brown Creeper in the background
Title: Hermit Thrush with a Brown Creeper in the background
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/1/2019
Mia McPherson
Hermit Thrush standing on one leg
Title: Hermit Thrush standing on one leg
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 11/1/2019