Thankfully the blackbird of her depression began to lift yesterday when we passed a quiet and for the most part recuperative Sunday. |
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The four biggest losers since the first Big Garden Birdwatch in 1979 have been the starling, house sparrow, song thrush and blackbird. |
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A particularly spectacular blackbird arrival was recorded during November 5, 1961 following a north-westerly gale the previous day. |
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Unlike the blackbird, the ring ouzel is usually wary and wild, shunning the neighbourhood of human habitation. |
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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? |
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Birds suffering the steepest falls include the blackbird, dunnock, song thrush, and four types of warbler. |
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They included four oropendolas and four caciques in a molecular study of blackbird relationships using cytochrome-b sequence data. |
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Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis. |
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He'd be dressed in a red robemade of epaulettes from red-winged blackbird wings. |
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A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head. |
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The male blackbird resumed his perch, his inky feathers drying in the bright sun as he continued his vigil. |
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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. |
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The country's bird population includes the nightingale, oriole, blackbird, woodpecker, owl, grouse, partridge, finch, tomtit, quail, and lark. |
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Thus the river's moving, the blackbird must be flying, two half-knowledges or halves of one knowing. |
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If the recovery agency is shut down, blackbird would likely pick up the rescue business as it is outsourced. |
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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. |
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Red-winged blackbird calls sound like loud check and a high slurred tee-err sound when alarmed. |
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The wood lark, jay, song thrush, blackbird, hawk, and long-eared owl frequent the republic's forests. |
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The lavatory was chilly: its tiny high window made it feel like a prison cell, but a blackbird sang liquidly outside in the yard. |
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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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Nature's Home editor Mark Ward said a vote for the blackbird was a vote for joy. |
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Shyer cousins of the blackbird, they live on marginal land of moorland and fast-flowing burns. |
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That's why you should vote blackbird – for no other reason than it being the bird that makes you smile. |
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The male red-winged blackbird returns before the female in the spring and leaves after the female in the fall. |
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In addition, Ontario residents may hunt American crow, brownheaded cowbird, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, starling and house sparrows. |
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The red-winged blackbird is best known for the males' distinctive red shoulder patches called epaulettes. |
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Canary Yellow diamonds, blackbird pie whistles and a curiously cranelike lamp flock together. |
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From the first, even among artistic geniuses, Picasso was clearly the white blackbird, the rara avis. |
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Lindo's own choice is the blackbird, for its song – and for the Beatles' one. |
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Today Black is a senior vice president for blackbird Technologies, a Virginia based security contractor. |
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I came in search of ring ouzel, a rare mountain cousin of the common blackbird. |
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The four biggest loosers are the starling, the house sparrow, song thrush and blackbird. |
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Representative true thrushes are species of the genus Turdus, which include the blackbird, fieldfare, ouzel, and redwing of Europe, as well as the American robin. |
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For instance, due to their declining populations, the rusty blackbird, the white-winged crossbill, and the boreal chickadee should be monitored in their distribution area throughout Québec. |
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The day after, the second of June, I listen to the blackbird. |
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There are the sounds of late autumn: the yack of jackdaws, a starling imitating a blackbird, a robin's thin song, the chatter of sparrows picking through a nearby gutter. |
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This print features a red-winged blackbird on a cattail, and is framed and numbered. |
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In Paraguay, the draft version of the final report had been submitted for the project for the Conservation of the Saffron-cowled blackbird, carried out by the country's GUYRA Association. |
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Try to spot the first of the fluffy blackbird fledglings, and keep an eye out for declining species such as house martins and song thrushes. |
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There are regular sightings of the common merganser and belted kingfisher, as well as the American black duck, mallard, great blue heron and red-winged blackbird. |
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An example of this is blackbird hunting in Corsica: In the name of tradition, hunters have been practicing shooting since the banning of trapping. |
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It is the mountain equivalent of the closely related common blackbird, and breeds in gullies, rocky areas or scree slopes. |
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Many birds, such as the common blackbird, and some mammals will feed on the nutritious fruits in autumn. |
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Ouzel also survives as the name of a relative of the blackbird, the ring ouzel. |
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Migrant birds like cursoirus cursor, gull, starling, blackbird, duck, waterhen and sand grouse. |
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I came in search of ring ouzel, a rare mountain cousin of the I came in search of ring ouzel, a rare mountain cousin of the common blackbird. |
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Song and mistle thrush are both residents, while the recorded blackbird population is one of the largest in the country. |
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Last year more than 25,000 people in Wales took part and half a million birds from 60 species were spotted, ranging from the common blackbird to the more unusual blackcap. |
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For the bakers who want to put a personal stamp on their gingerbread, this laser-engraved rolling pin is decorated with a blackbird, chevron, or circle design. |
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Ring ouzels, the mountain blackbird, have been returning to upland nesting areas, hopefully to be recorded by RSPB surveyors completing a UK census. |
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At first glance, the ring ouzel could be confused with a blackbird. |
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It's great to know that blackbird, robin and song thrush chicks are back up from last June, and it would suggest that the weather conditions were just right in that month. |
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