Mistle thrush greeting card, blank inside, 7x5” 100% recycled card (slightly speckled) with brown Kraft envelope.

No cellophane card wrap provided to reduce packaging waste.

The mistle thrush is one of the largest types of thrush and its size is an easy way to distinguish it from the much smaller song thrush. Mistle thrushes eat berries, seeds, fruit and small insects and will fiercely guard food sources such as holly bushes, rowan trees and, of course, mistletoe clumps – the Latin name translates to ‘devourer of mistletoe’!

Sadly the mistle thrush was recently added to the Red List (Birds of Conservation Concern 4) and its population has been steadily declining since the 1970s. Five out of six UK thrush species are now on the Red List – mistle thrush, fieldfare, ring ouzel, song thrush and redwing.