The male has a simple whistling song, similar to the related mistle thrush. The type species was subsequently designated as the mistle thrush. The mistle thrush is the largest thrush native to Europe. The album's title, "Stormcock", is an old English name for the Mistle thrush ("Turdus viscivorus"). Mistle thrush fossils have been found in Pleistocene deposits from Poland and Sicily. The mistle thrush is not normally a host of the common cuckoo, a brood parasite. The mistle thrush is much larger, paler and longer-tailed than the sympatric song thrush. Mistle thrush, Song thrush, Blackbird, and House sparrow, Common shrew, Wood mouse, and Brown rat.