Blackbird
Taken at Strathclyde Park on 30th March 2024 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File

Taken at Strathclyde Park on 11th November 2023 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Strathclyde Park on 6th April 2023 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Lochwinnoch on 1st February 2022 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Doonfoot on 30th May 2021 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File

Taken at Strathclyde Park on 21st February 2021 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File

Taken at Doonfoot on 30th April 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm lens. Fact File
Female
 Taken at Strathclyde Park on 19th March 2024 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
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Taken at Baron's Haugh on 29th November 2023 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Hogganfield Loch on 25th October 2022 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Taken at Ambleside on 14th July  2019 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Juvenile

Lunch...More like a Buffet
Taken at Hogganfield Loch on 18th April 2019 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.		 Fact File

 Blackbird.
Species:
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Local Names:		 Turdus merula.
Passeriformes.
Turdidae.
Blackie.
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Length:
 Mainly Bushes.
Grass and twigs, bound together with mud.
Omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms, seeds and berries.
Adult males are all black except for a yellow eye-ring and bill. Both adult female and juvenile birds have brown plumage, but the juvenile male retains the yellow eye ring.
23.5 to 29 cm.
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