The Thrush’s Name
“The thrush, also known as the thrasher, got its name,” says a writer in “Forest and Bird,” “owing to the bird’s habit of holding a shell-back snail in its bealc and thrashing the mollusc on a stone until the shell is broken, thus enabling it to get at the contents. The actions of the thrush are exactly like those of a man with a flail threshing grain from the straw. In a garden there is generally one favourite stone, surrounded by broken shells, on which the snails aro smashed.”.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 209, 2 September 1942, Page 4
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92The Thrush’s Name Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 209, 2 September 1942, Page 4
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