Turdus iliacus
The redwing is a bird in the thrush family, Turdidae, native to Europe and the Palearctic, slightly smaller than the related song thrush.

Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- redwingPBDB
- Sits inside
- TurdusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Turdidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Turdidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Turdidae
- Mass
- 62 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.8 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Turdus iliacus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
11 occurrences- Pleistocene82%
- Holocene18%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Turdus iliacus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Turdus iliacus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
283 taxa- Columba palumbus6 sites
- Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax6 sites
- Scolopax rusticola6 sites
- Columba oenas5 sites
- Corvus monedula5 sites
- Falco tinnunculus5 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus5 sites
- Turdus pilaris5 sites
- Accipiter gentilis4 sites
- Anas4 sites
- Anas crecca4 sites
- Buteo buteo4 sites
- Columba4 sites
- Corvus4 sites
- Fringilla4 sites
- Garrulus glandarius4 sites
- Phalacrocorax aristotelis4 sites
- Turdus merula4 sites
- Turdus philomelos4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos3 sites
- Athene cretensis3 sites
- Columba livia3 sites
- Corvus corone3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Turdus iliacus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
7 references- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece3
- Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia2
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)2
- Pleistocene birds of Gruta da Furninha (Peniche-Portugal): a paleontological and paleoenvironmental aproach1
- Implications of the avian fauna for palaeoecology in the Early Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula1
- Upper Pleistocene and Holocene fossil avifauna from Moleta cave (Mallorca, Balearic Islands)1
- La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco1
Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Turdus iliacus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andreas Trepte
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turdus iliacus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Redwing”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurdus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758