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Thankfully the blackbird of her depression began to lift yesterday when we passed a quiet and for the most part recuperative Sunday.
The four biggest losers since the first Big Garden Birdwatch in 1979 have been the starling, house sparrow, song thrush and blackbird.
A particularly spectacular blackbird arrival was recorded during November 5, 1961 following a north-westerly gale the previous day.
Unlike the blackbird, the ring ouzel is usually wary and wild, shunning the neighbourhood of human habitation.
What would happen if a blackbird laid two eggs, one ending up in a condor's roost while the other lands in a human's egg basket?
Birds suffering the steepest falls include the blackbird, dunnock, song thrush, and four types of warbler.
They included four oropendolas and four caciques in a molecular study of blackbird relationships using cytochrome-b sequence data.
Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis.
He'd be dressed in a red robemade of epaulettes from red-winged blackbird wings.
A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head.
The male blackbird resumed his perch, his inky feathers drying in the bright sun as he continued his vigil.
One blackbird wearing an orange beak sat on a branch and made a faint noise like a rubber duck with its whistle full of pudding, a tweet with the edges rubbed smooth.
The country's bird population includes the nightingale, oriole, blackbird, woodpecker, owl, grouse, partridge, finch, tomtit, quail, and lark.
Thus the river's moving, the blackbird must be flying, two half-knowledges or halves of one knowing.
If the recovery agency is shut down, blackbird would likely pick up the rescue business as it is outsourced.
The blackbird in question is perched on a painted branch above the stairs, looking down with a beady eye on a mural which commemorates many of the Chip's staff and regulars.
Red-winged blackbird calls sound like loud check and a high slurred tee-err sound when alarmed.
The wood lark, jay, song thrush, blackbird, hawk, and long-eared owl frequent the republic's forests.
The lavatory was chilly: its tiny high window made it feel like a prison cell, but a blackbird sang liquidly outside in the yard.
The red-winged blackbird is a polygynous species, meaning the male mates with more than one female in a single breeding season.
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And he laughed so merrily that Mr. red-winged blackbird had to believe him.
It was no more than a red-winged blackbird that you saw, he said, or perhaps it was a bright tanager.
Two interesting birds of this family are the red-winged blackbird and the cow-blackbird or cowbird.
Nowadays when the red-winged blackbird comes around the house, he still shouts, Ku nam wi cu, so they say.
One contained a red-winged blackbird, that had been taken from its nest when very young, and brought up by hand.
Two of the eggs were marked with black hieroglyphics like those seen in the eggs of an oriole or red-winged blackbird.
A red-winged blackbird bulky as an eagle trumpeted a swamp-secret to her as he passed.
You'll niver hear a throstle i' front o' a robin, nor a robin i' front o' a blackbird.
No wonder he thought our robin inferior in power to the missel thrush, in variety to the mavis, and in melody to the blackbird!
The blackbird is the modernist who has become blas, mentally and spiritually empty.
As he spoke a blackbird came running with a chuckle from underneath the berberis, looked at them with alarm, and ran back.
However, when you can't get a thrush, eat a blackbird, as the proverb says.
Tom then knocked a blackbird off a furze bush, and loading the gun, handed it to me.
It is the family of the blackbird and oriole, of the bobolink and the meadowlark.
Kearton somewhere relates how he once induced a blackbird to sit on the eggs of a thrush, and a lapwing on those of a redshank.
This being done, he began to look on tranquilly, whistling from time to time when a blackbird flitted past.
It was getting late, and as yet the blackbird had had no breakfast.
One for the blackbird, One for the crow, One for the cutworm, Two to grow.
What doth the blackbird in the boughs Sing all day to his nested spouse?
Presently the party, in full cry after an old blackbird, came beating down a high double hedge, two on each side.
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