Townsend's Solitaire

• Size: 7.9-8.7" long // 13.0-14.6" wingspan
• Diet: butterflies, moths, and spiders
• Seasonal Habits: Migrate in winter
• Temperament: Aggressive to other birds

The Townsend's Solitaire is an elegant, wide-eyed songbird of western-mountain forests. Their drab gray plumage gets a lift from subtly beautiful buffy wing patches and a white eye ring. Though they're thrushes, they perch upright atop trees and shrubs to advertise their territories all year long, and can easily be mistaken for flycatchers. Their sweet jumbling song gives them away and enlivens their evergreen forest and juniper woodland homes. In winter they switch from eating primarily insects to eating fruit, particularly juniper berries.