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Vol. 46 No. 4 (2015)

TWO THRUSH SPECIES FEED THE SAME NESTLINGS

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB46.4.6
Submitted
September 22, 2025
Published
October 1, 2015

Abstract

I observed Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) nestlings fed by both their parents and an American Robin (Turdus migratorius) on the same day. On 2 and 3 July 2015 at Leoni Meadows, south of Grizzly Flat, southeast of Placerville, El Dorado Co., California, at about 1250 m elevation, I observed a solitaire nest with five nestlings that appeared to be within a week of fledging. Shaded by tall Ponderosa Pines (Pinus ponderosa), the nest was on the ground, surrounded by pine needles, in a south-facing dirt bank below a parking lot near the busy center of a Christian youth camp (Figure 1; see also this issue’s front cover).

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