Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)
- HABITAT - Preferred habitats include coniferous and mixed forests; deciduous woodlands and thickets are favored during migration and winter. Their breeding range stretched across Canada, southern Alaska, and the northeastern and western United States. They winter in the south eastern USA and into Mexico.
- DIET - Hermit Thrushes feeds on many insects, spiders, earthworms, and snails especially in breeding season with berries and small fruits are eaten at all seasons. Like many thrushes of the forest, they forage mostly on ground, often flipping leaf litter with their bills.
- FACTS - Hermit Thrushes are the last of the North American thrushes to migrate south in the fall, the first to head north in spring, and the only ones to winter in the United States.
