page_title: Tristan thrush
section_title: Feeding
hierarchical_section_title: Tristan thrush / Behaviour / Feeding
caption_attribution_description: Nesocichla eremita English: A Tristan Thrush on Nightingale Island. It is scavenging on a dead bird.
context_page_description: The Tristan thrush, also known as the starchy, is a species of bird in the thrush family that is endemic to the British overseas territories of the isolated Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean.
context_section_description: An opportunistic omnivore and scavenger, the thrush feeds on earthworms and other invertebrates of the soil and leaf litter, as well as on carrion, berries, the eggs and fledglings of other birds, and kitchen scraps.
caption: Scavenging on dead bird on Nightingale Island
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