Fieldfare

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Length
250–270 mm
Lifespan
4958–8264 days 14–23 years
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Turdus pilaris
The fieldfare is a migratory bird from the thrush family. It lives in northern forests and open areas of Europe and Asia, often gathers in large flocks, and feeds on rowan berries.
The fieldfare differs from other thrushes with its gray head, rufous sides, and black spots on a white belly. It is important for nature because it spreads seeds of berry plants and eats harmful insects.
Forages for food on the ground, in grass, or on trees
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Mass (adult bird)
80–130 g
Mass (chick)
6–65 g
Mass (fledgling)
65–110 g
Mass (egg)
5–7 g
Length (fledgling)
200–250 mm
Length (chick)
30–150 mm
Length (egg)
25–30 mm
Length (adult bird)
250–270 mm
Wingspan
420 mm
Lifespan maximum
6611 days 18 years 1 month
Theoretical lifespan
1826–3646 days 5–10 years
Gestation
12 days 1 week 5 days
Litter size
4–7
Maturity
330–400 days 11 months – 1 year 1 month
Offspring
4–7
Repro interval
365 days 1 year
Wings size (adult bird)
0.14–0.15 mm
Comparable in mass
Carrot
Biome
Taiga
Realm
Palearctic realm
Biome
Flooded grasslands
Biome
Temperate mixed forest
Climate
Cool summer and lots of rain
Climate
Warm summer and lots of rain
Climate
Always very wet
Landscape
terrestrial forest
Landscape
alpine and arctic tundra
Landscape
terrestrial
Climate
Warm summer
Climate
Winter with snow
Climate
Lots of rain and cool summer
Climate
Pleasant summer
Food environment
terrestrial
Food environment
arboreal
Shelter
nest
Trophic type
omnivore
Reproduction (egg)
Egg color
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Worker
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Picking small food items from foliage, ground, or other surfaces.
Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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When your next jubilee falls in {name} life years
Human
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Warm summer
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
beak
adult bird
Maturity
insects
About health
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
Repro interval
results
earthworms
summer warm, winter not very cold
Colors
Sex
Upcoming jubilees
Gremllins
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Uses jaws or beak to break hard-shelled or tough food items.
conifer cones
alpine meadows and arctic tundra on land
Trophic type
Filters
Palearctic realm
Upcoming birthdays
Breeding structure built or used for laying eggs and raising offspring.
Winter with snow
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
leaf
rains almost always, very humid
Age (juvenile)
Age (from birth to death)
cones of coniferous trees with seeds
woodland
Foraging occurs on the floor of aquatic or terrestrial habitats.
Age (embryo)
most of Europe and Asia, various forests, steppes and tundra
Wanderers
Food items are collected from exposed outer surfaces of substrates.
Wings size
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
berries
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Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
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Lifespan average
fledgling
Juvenile stage following larval metamorphosis but not yet adult.
leaf litter
What do they look like?
Maturity
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
Wings color
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
end of acceleration
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
gleaning
Actively hunting and capturing live prey.
65 to 130 grams, 25 – 60 centimeters
Pets
Belly color
Repeatedly strikes or probes substrate with beak to obtain food.
juicy berries — bilberry, rowan, rosehip
Lots of rain and cool summer
Feeding occurs primarily on land or in vegetation.
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Old-timers
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Wingspan
turns
Rascals
terrestrial forest
Flooded grasslands
fruit
Forages on tree limbs or woody stems within vegetation.
seeds
Litter size
Back color
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
°C
Not specified
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alpine and arctic tundra
Actively searching habitats to locate food items.
Egg color
Where are they found?
Down color
lots of rain, cool summer, snow in winter
Locomotion through water employed while searching for or capturing prey.
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
Elders
Foraging among accumulated fallen leaves on the forest floor.
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Taxons
if born as {name}
Foraging takes place among trees and woody vegetation.
omnivore
age
birth date
swimming
Palearctic realm
Close
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Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
The basics
climbing
My weight?
Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
surface
primary food sources
Potential Habitat
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
lots of rain, summer not hot
Mass
cold winter, lots of coniferous trees: spruce, pine
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
terrestrial
Gestation
{name} birthday
Food is gathered directly from leaf surfaces.
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On the map
Pleasant summer
all life stages
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Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0 Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
birth year
Maturity
terrestrial habitat, land surface outside water
sq mm
yr
Beak color
comfortable summer, +20…+25 °C
How similar?
Male ♂
until the celebration
chick
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
Legs color
What if eaten?
Neither
Moving up vertical surfaces like trunks or rocks to reach food.
from birth to adulthood
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
nest
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
Immature individual that has not yet reached reproductive maturity.
much snow in winter, cold
Plumage color
forests on land — tropical, temperate, boreal
water often floods the land, lots of grass
branch
Temperate mixed forest
Duration
live insects
This is me
most of Europe and Asia, various forests, steppes and tundra
Always very wet
Gamers
crushing
How are they built?
Cool summer and lots of rain
mm
Theoretical lifespan
ml
Stars
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My age?
wk
My size?
terrestrial
Taiga
Asexual
swap
active predation
Who among us will transform as if by magic and become like {animal}?
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Where do they take shelter?
Warm summer and lots of rain
Head color
celebrated their {n} birthday
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
earthworms and soil oligochaetes
foraging
Hermaphrodite ⚥
egg
Carrot
Hard, projecting mouthpart used to probe, pluck, or crack food.
summer warm, many oaks, birches, maples
plant seeds — sunflower, grass, small wild seeds
Length
kg
lots of rain, warm and pleasant summer
arboreal
Observations
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  • The fieldfare's upper body is colored in three shades: the head is gray, the back is brown, and the tail is dark, almost black. This coloring contrasts with the white belly and under-tail coverts, visible from below.
  • Fieldfares, even those accustomed to captivity, do not reproduce in confinement. They cannot be hand-reared in captivity, as this does not help in obtaining offspring.
  • The fieldfare defends itself by throwing fecal bombs at enemies, as they can so thoroughly dirty and glue the feathers that enemies cannot fly.

Phenotype

  • The fieldfare's upper body is colored in three shades: the head is gray, the back is brown, and the tail is dark, almost black. This coloring contrasts with the white belly and under-tail coverts, visible from below.
  • The fieldfare defends itself by throwing fecal bombs at enemies, as they can so thoroughly dirty and glue the feathers that enemies cannot fly.

In Husbandry

  • Fieldfares, even those accustomed to captivity, do not reproduce in confinement. They cannot be hand-reared in captivity, as this does not help in obtaining offspring.