Very common and familiar in gardens, fields, and just about anywhere with trees or bushes. Often tame and approachable. Takes a few hops and stops to pull out a worm. Sometimes will stay motionless for a while with head tilted as if looking with one eye. Follow it and it will often go to its nest, usually just above head height in the fork of 2 branches. In fall migrates s., often in waves of hundreds or thousands in evenly spaced, flight which is strong and direct. They suddenly descend on trees laden with fruit or berries and glut themselves. Newly cultivated or flooded fields are also favorites. Musical song. ID: Sturdily built Turdus. Ad ♂: gray upperparts. Black head with bold eyelids, bright burnt-orange underparts. Ad ♀/imm ♂: all colors duller, underparts pale-tipped. Imm ♀: dullest with brown rather than gray back, extending onto head with indistinct supercilium. Pale orange underparts. Juv: dark-spotted underparts, pale spotted upperparts. Plumage molted out in a few weeks, though remnants can often be seen through fall — these birds can be aged and usually sexed.