Blackbirds Doing Stuff

Passeriformes #2

Place: Rainforest biome of The Eden Project, Cornwall
Date: 20 September 2015.

Blackbird eating fruit

Place: Alhambra, Andalucia
Date: 9 June 2015.

Blackbird fighting a grasshopper

Place: Kew Gardens, London
Date: 28 June 2016.

Blackbird singing

[Turdus merula, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common blackbird]

The sound of the blackbird (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

Distribution and sightings of the blackbird across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).