Blackbird

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One of the most numerous and familiar of our birds marked black with yellow bill in the male.  

Voice-Penetrating pink or chink calls, extending fluting and melodious song.     

Habitat-Year-round resident, migrant, and winter visitor.   

Nest-Grassy cup in tree or bush.      

Diet-More vegetable than animal, takes all fruits and berries.   

 

Resident.
Common. Traditionally a bird of woodland but now equally common in parks and gardens. A mixed diet feeding on worms, snails, insects and fruit.

Additional - temporary notes

The males live up to their name but, confusingly, females are brown often with spots and streaks on their breasts. The bright orange-yellow beak and eye-ring make adult male blackbirds one of the most striking garden birds. One of the commonest UK birds, its mellow song is also a favourite.

Where does it live?

Breeding

Blackbirds are birds of woodland and heaths which have readily adapted to farmland and gardens. They like areas with bushes, shrubs and trees, and nearby open ground and short grass.

Wintering

Blackbirds which come here for the winter like suitable cover for roosting - shrubs and trees - with feeding areas nearby. Often found along berry-bearing hedges and in open fields.