Identification - The Veery is between a robin and a sparrow in size. It is warm brown above with almost no eye ring and white below. The face is not buffy like the Swainson's Thrush. The breast spots are blurred, small, and clustered in lines converging from mid-breast to lower throat, unlike the big dark spots of the Wood Thrush or the large spots and 'arrow heads' of the Hermit Thrush.
Morsels - Experiments by ornithologists have shown that males of the brown-backed thrush group cannot distinguish between the various members of the group by sight alone. If stuffed specimens of the Wood Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, Hermit Thrush and Veery are placed in a Veery's territory, it will attack all of them. However, if the stuffed birds are paired with tape recorded songs, the Veery will attack only the dummy "singing" the Veery's song.
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