Tour Scotland Photograph Ring Ouzel On A Highland Cow

Tour Scotland photograph of a bird sunbathing on a Highland Cow in Southern Perthshire, Scotland. The bird is a Ring Ouzel, Turdus torquatus, a European member of the thrush family Turdidae. Slightly smaller and slimmer than a blackbird, male ring ouzels are particularly distinctive with their black plumage with a pale wing panel and striking white breast band. The ring ouzel is primarily a bird of the uplands, where it breeds mainly in steep sided valleys, crags and gullies, from near sea level in the far north of Scotland up to high in the mountains of the Cairngorms.



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