The Townsend’s Solitaire is an elegant, wide-eyed songbird of western-mountain forests. Their drab gray plumage gets a lift from subtly beautiful buffy wing patches and a white eyering.
Though they're thrushes, they perch upright atop trees and shrubs to advertise their territories all year long, and can easily be mistaken for flycatchers.
One study suggested that a Townsend's Solitaire's will eat between 42,000 and 84,000 juniper berries to survive the winter. Cornell All About Birds
