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Blackbird (Spring)

Bill Oddie presents the blackbird.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

Bill Oddie presents the blackbird. Blackbirds are thrushes and the brown female often has a few speckles on her throat to prove it. Velvety, black and shiny, the males sport an eye-ring as yellow as a spring daffodil and a bill glowing like a buttercup. Happily blackbirds aren't doing too badly. There's so many of them that their territories often overlap so that where one song leaves off, another song begins.

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Sun 17 Apr 2022 08:58

Blackbird (Turdus merula)

Webpage image courtesy fo RSPB (rspb-images.com)

Broadcasts

  • Tue 4 Mar 2014 05:58
  • Tue 10 Mar 2015 05:58
  • Mon 7 Mar 2016 05:58
  • Sun 13 Mar 2016 08:58
  • Wed 18 Apr 2018 05:58
  • Sun 1 Mar 2020 08:58
  • Mon 5 Apr 2021 05:58
  • Sun 17 Apr 2022 08:58

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