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Aggression of Blackbird towards Fieldfare

01 December 2023 Comments Notes In January 2013, I was providing sweet apples in my snow-covered garden in Co. Louth, which attracted many Blackbirds Turdus merula, Redwings T. iliacus, a Robin Erithacus rubecula and a Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla. The resi...

Blackbird eating remains of dead young

01 April 2023 Comments Notes ...

Blackbird using mulberry fruit to collect drupes in Greece

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Sunning in sub-Saharan Africa

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 13th March 2020, CRB and JO observed a White Wagtail Motacilla alba sunning at Tanji Beach, The Gambia. At 11.55 GMT, a brightly marked White Wagtail landed on a sandy beach, walked towards the debris line without feeding and abruptly lay on ...

Unusual feeding behaviour of Blackbirds

01 March 2021 Comments Notes ...

Blackbird and Song Thrush catching Minnows

01 September 2020 Comments Notes ...

Unusual feeding behaviour by Song Thrush and Blackbird at a garden pond

01 May 2020 Comments Notes ...

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01 May 1990 Comments Notes Wren fighting with Cetti's Warbler. At 07.30 GMT on 9th August 1987, at Abbey Mead Lake, Newhythe, Kent, I noticed a Wren Troglodytes troglodytes and a Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti fighting on the ground. They were locked in battle, and I came to withi...

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01 April 1988 Comments Notes Pied-billed Grebe catching fish attracted by man. I was very interested in Dan Crawley's recent note (Brit. Birds 80: 72-73) describing how a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus caught fish attracted by bread thrown to waterbirds. I had rather a sim...