# Swainson’s thrush

A first-year thrush flies from Manitoba toward Costa Rica. It uses stars, twilight and the magnetic field to hold its route.

Character · Fictional · Established

Stable ID: `lodestar-thrush` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Lodestar: The Night Migration](/field-guide/collections/lodestar-game/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/lodestar-thrush/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/lodestar-thrush/record.json)

## Appearances

- [Lodestar: The Night Migration](/gamelab/lodestar.html) (context: [Lodestar: The Night Migration](/field-guide/collections/lodestar-game/))

- [Advisory Hour archive](/field-notes/advisory-hour-archive.html): Named in this published page.

- [Gamelab: Lodestar: The Night Migration](/gamelab/projects/lodestar/gamelab-lodestar-the-night-migration.html): Named in this published page.

## Sources

- [Lodestar: The Night Migration](/gamelab/lodestar.html) (revision sha256:70f156cc361c782aa8df5dff61743b772a2baf3c31890c4f3af853f795f07754)

## Portrait

![Proposed illustration of Swainson’s thrush.](/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-generated-lodestar-thrush-v1-1200.webp)

Proposed natural-history illustration of Lodestar's first-year Swainson's thrush.

[Download original](/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-generated-lodestar-thrush-v1-1200.webp) · [Lodestar: The Night Migration](/gamelab/lodestar.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `d37c9043cea7190e603c4d7c38b7012ee3c7f7aa78949b8cf0b3f46566f03fd4`