How To Use Blackbird In A Sentence
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The blackbird called to its mate.
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Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
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Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
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I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta.
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Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
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Birdsong enters the cottage from front and back - blackbirds, robins, finches.
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In this country, unless the weather is severe, the birds frequent open country associating with redwings, blackbirds and yellowhammers.
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A particularly spectacular blackbird arrival was recorded during November 5, 1961 following a north-westerly gale the previous day.
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They included four oropendolas and four caciques in a molecular study of blackbird relationships using cytochrome-b sequence data.
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Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.
THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
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Down in the bog, the first red-winged blackbirds were yodeling, and a robin sang in the evening.
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It begins with snowdrops and ends with blackbirds celebrating choral evensong, and the rookeries, in whirling dervish mood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
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We waited hours for several common birds - blue jay, northern flicker, and fish crow - but missed red-winged blackbird and American robin.
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The 'subsong' of blackbirds remains an ornithological mystery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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Blackbirds that come down for bread on a snowy lawn spend almost as much time quarrelling as feeding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis.
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A blackbird swooping down to steal a walnut from an alimentation générale.
Nicole Garton: Ingénue Interview: Rosa Rankin-Gee
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
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It's been a long time since I heard a blackbird's song in the evening.
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Blackbirds seem to maximize that benefit by aggregating their nests in dense colonies.
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There is nothing to see except blackbirds and sparrows; nothing to hear except the noise of butterflies' wings.
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Eggs were bought for threepence a dozen by the Temuka Roads Board for sparrows, thrushes and blackbirds.
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We wrapped the blackbird in ferns and lyrically buried it under an acer tree.
Times, Sunday Times
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Replaying his reel-to-reel tape, Jurgenson was stunned when he supposedly heard - between the twitters of the blackbirds - the distinct voice of his mother.
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Blackbirds and thrushes along with plover and field-fare should be about in numbers.
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blackbirder" -- "labour vessel," the wise it call -- nothing more will be needed to convince the initiated that I have moved in the "nine circles" of Polynesia.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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In the eighteenth century the great naturalist, Gilbert White of Selborne, paid a man to shoot blackbirds by the score every spring to protect his fruit trees.
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A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head.
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Fieldfare and redwings feed on the mounds of apples, Blackbirds and thrushes turn over the compost heap.
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Let us now suppose that a "blackbirder" (obnoxious name to many recruiters) from Samoa, Fiji, or Queensland, has reached one of the New
The Call Of The South 1908
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Blackbirds' eggs are pale blue with brown flecks on them.
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German "blackbirder" named the _Samoa_, though the captain and the crew swore they knew nothing of the matter.
The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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When Galactica hits Dolly Parton's high notes, her squinting eyes reflect the challenge, and the scatted breakdown of "Bye Bye Blackbird" by Rachelle Ferrell has the diva in a bent posture, shaking her clenched fists.
Galactica performance perfectly in sync in Fringe Festival's 'Irrelevant Acts'
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A Robin is building at our back door, the Blackbird sings in the meadow behind, the Nightingale is heard even to the doors, the Cuckow plies his two notes all day, and a colony of frogs their one by twilight. best love to All,
Letter 276
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I'm dealing with clouds of blackbirds today but what did Annie say?
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
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We'd be out in the fields trying to flush pheasants, and flocks of migrating blackbirds would appear.
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That was a slang name for the blackbird -- calling birds, colly birds.
CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009
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A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
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The robin warbled, and the blackbird piped.
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Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.
Lorna Doone
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If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
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Blackbirds, cowbirds, and mockingbirds are common companions throughout most of the year.
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However, they misspelled the word "ouzel," which is a type of blackbird.
Iowa City Press-Citizen - Local News
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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The blackbird has gone on ahead and made it his business, with sharp "Keck! keck!" to alarm every bird in the woods.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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As dawn breaks on a misty Welsh morning, the earliest birds to break into song are likely to include European robins, followed by blackbirds and song thrushes.
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Rusty Blackbirds are fairly slender birds with long wings and tails.
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Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
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In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops.
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Mating blackbirds will defend their territory against intruders.
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
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The blackbird's nest contained four eggs.
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
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A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully.
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Blackbird House is a chronological series of stories, all set in the same weatherboarded farmhouse on the Cape, built by a fisherman trying to escape the sea.
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Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
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Blackbird, my dark brother dressed in ebon from head to toe, played like a madman.
Blackbird Pie « A Fly in Amber
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Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water-ousel -- called the dipper in the North.
The Life of the Fields
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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Several varieties were all growing on Gisela 5 rootstock, which keeps the trees compact, and under frames of netting to keep out the birds – mainly blackbirds, though this year mistle thrushes too.
Country diary: West Lambrook, Somerset
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Blackbirds may be found in a wide range of habitats including dense woodland, coastal sand-dunes, farmland, minute marsh carrs and town and city centres.
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A blackbird was perching on the gate.
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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The stormcock, a fine and appropriate alternative name for the mistle thrush, will defend a berried bush, especially in hard weather, against other birds of the thrush family, blackbirds, song thrushes; and our winter visitors the redwings and fieldfares.
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Also a young robin, a fledgeling great-tit being given a lesson in how to work bird feeders by a harrassed-looking parent, a couple of adolescent blackbirds from the parents' first brood I think they are now feeding nestlings on their second, and a noisy family of chaffinches.
Archive 2009-06-01
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A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully.
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Birds such as starlings, blackbirds, thrushes and dunnocks will use a lawn to hunt for worms and insects, so maintain good drainage and limit compaction to help them probe in its surface.
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The road descended through weedy habitat full of sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds.
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Because many birds which become silent about Midsummer, reassume their notes in September; as the thrush, blackbird, woodlark, willow-wren,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
How to get back to nature when camping
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The common birds included grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and lots and lots of robins.
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The redwing, fieldfare and blackbirds are all involved in serious territorial swoops between trees.
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We tend to be very suspicious of the paid hacks, the yeasayers and naysayers who generally act like a bunch of blackbirds on a telephone wire.
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
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My own small back garden contains the live nests of wrens, blackbirds and sparrows, so there will be scores more on the campus.
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The blackbird's nest contained four eggs.
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One blackbird wearing an orange beak sat on a branch and made a faint noise like a rubber duck with its whistle full of pudding, a tweet with the edges rubbed smooth.
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Blackbirds, starlings, green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
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The brilliant epaulettes of the male red-winged blackbird may be a help in attracting a large number of females to his territory.
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Birds are not like this: blackbirds or goldfinches vary reassuringly little wherever you go.
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The next thing these people will kill blackbirds for spreading redwater.
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Blackbirds flirt and do their mating flutter at the curb on Main Street.
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I never saw "Flash Harry" again, for a few months later I left Samoa for the Caroline Group, and when I returned a year afterwards I was told that he had at last found the country too hot for him and had left the island in a German "blackbirder" bound to the Solomon Islands.
The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
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Thankfully the blackbird of her depression began to lift yesterday when we passed a quiet and for the most part recuperative Sunday.
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In vivid contrast, his recent composition "Double Sextet" -- which sets a live ensemble of strings, winds, keyboard and percussion against a digital recording of an identical ensemble in this case, a recording made by the new music group Eighth Blackbird -- let loose an orchestral range of expression tinged with an almost Bartókian angularity in the string writing.
Music review of Bang on a Can All-Stars at Strathmore Hall
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On the phone, while my sister is reading in bed, I sit in the kitchen of our B&B and tell William about the live oaks, the dogwoods in bloom, and the redwing blackbird I spotted on our second day.
The Memory Palace
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Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
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The price tag on a Blackbird Rider Acoustic Guitar is $ 1 , 599.
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Almost everywhere you look in Guanacaste Province there are pairs, trios, or small flocks of Groove-billed Anis, birds that superficially resemble blackbirds.
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A blackbird swooping down to steal a walnut from an alimentation générale.
Nicole Garton: Ingénue Interview: Rosa Rankin-Gee
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Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugénie, who rescued me.
JERRY OF THE ISLANDS
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Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
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He denied the trust had been dismissive towards Mr Blackbird and his family.
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A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
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The blackbird sat on the nest waiting for the return of her mate.
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Jolly Blackbird, -- a very quaint, old-fashioned law dining-house in the neighbourhood of Portugal Street, which had managed not to get itself pulled down a dozen years ago on behalf of the Law Courts which are to bless some coming generation.
The Prime Minister
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All around the greedy jackjaws, blackbirds, thrushes and magpies eye the ripening fruit and at the exact moment that the fruit ripens they pounce leaving nothing but pips.
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Fintan's fingers flew over the hornpipes and slowed for the sound of ‘The Dear Irish Boy a slow air and an old set dance called ‘Blackbird’.
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Mating blackbirds will defend their territory against intruders.
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Jolly Blackbird, -- a very quaint, old-fashioned law dining-house in the neighbourhood of Portugal Street, which had managed not to get itself pulled down a dozen years ago on behalf of the Law Courts which are to bless some coming generation.
The Prime Minister
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The redwing, fieldfare and blackbirds are all involved in serious territorial swoops between trees.
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For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground.
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Redwing journey here non-stop from southern Scandinavia often in company with fieldfares and blackbirds.
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The blackbird sat on the nest waiting for the return of her mate.
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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The blackbird flew back and forth to its brood.
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But the Louisiana bird die-off came just a few days after up to 5,000 blackbirds fell to earth in neighbouring Arkansas in the small town of Beebe.
Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana
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Blackbirds have such sensitive ears that they can hear a worm moving beneath soil three feet away.
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Some areas are carpeted with thick mats of water hyacinths - mats so dense that herons and blackbirds walk across them and no boat can shove through.
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Nightingale, blackcap, skylark, blackbird, woodlark — those are the songs humans go for.
Times, Sunday Times
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The starling was the most common bird spotted around schools until 2009 when it was knocked off by the blackbird.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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a "blackbirder" often presented a horrid spectacle -- the unfortunate
The Call Of The South 1908
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This applies particularly to the blackbird and throstle.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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The birds — a mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings — may have hit a power line or vehicles in the dark, LaCour said.
Louisiana has mass bird deaths just days after Arkansas
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The blackcurrant bush is alive with the wings and chirps of greedy blackbirds gorging themselves.
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First came a scolding note like that of an oriole, then the "chack" of a blackbird, and next a sweet, clear whistle, one following the other rapidly and vehemently, as if the performer intended to display all his accomplishments in a breath.
A Bird-Lover in the West
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With two stout sticks I bent the stalks over the deerskin and threshed out the grain that else the blackbirds would have eaten.
Chapter 21
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It is tempting to imagine that the elegy was written in some kind of foreknowledge of the untimely silencing of his own sweet blackbird song.
Archive 2009-04-01
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For example, during the development and service period of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, engineers working for Lockheed Corporation at the Skunk Works used the term unobtainium as a dysphemism for titanium.
Two New Extended Clips from AVATAR – Collider.com
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Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
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A blackbird flew out of the old apple tree in the garden behind him, pinking a warning.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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The redwing, fieldfare and blackbirds are all involved in serious territorial swoops between trees.
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Birds suffering the steepest falls include the blackbird, dunnock, song thrush, and four types of warbler.
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I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging.
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I pulled over at Schaar's Bluff, turned off my car and just sat and listened, beyond the bluebirds and meadowlarks you could hear tree sparrows and red-winged blackbirds.
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I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging.
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Blackbirds' eggs are pale blue with brown flecks on them.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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Ifyou have a greenhouse, grow the pot on in there until the growth is dense and settled in, so making it harder for the blackbirds to hoick out.
Stumped? Pesky blackbirds and useful coffee grounds
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That's all the details there are so far, but the idea of seeing a Blackbird as a transformer is amazing.
New Transformers 2 Robots Revealed: The Twins, Arcee, Jetfire, and More! « FirstShowing.net
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A particularly spectacular blackbird arrival was recorded during November 5, 1961 following a north-westerly gale the previous day.
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We blackbirded from the New hebrides and the Line Islands over to the westward, clear through the Louisiades, New Britain, New Ireland, and New Hanover.
The Heathen
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In Melbourne, gapeworm is common in ravens, blackbirds and thrushes but I've never diagnosed it in any of the Psittaciformes, probably because they don't usually eat earthworms.
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
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Blackbird" (which is arguably not a love song) sung in operatic voice is a little out of bounds for me, but overall, von Otter and Mehldau's partnership is full of fresh ideas.
Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Oct. 26
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Darwin noticed that some monogamous birds have very colorful males: mallards, for example, and blackbirds.
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The berries are startling and I am very much looking forward to the arrival of the northern blackbirds, the fieldfare and redwing.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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Every now and then, for instance, Hanna would start up and commence a series of little flirtations with the blackbird, which she called her sweetheart, and again resume her chat and seat as before; or she would attempt to catch a butterfly as it fluttered about her, or sometimes give it pursuit over half the green, whilst Kathleen sat with laughing and delighted eyes, and a smile of unutterable sweetness on her lips, watching the success of this innocent frolic.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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Then the birds: ibis, egret, wood duck, redwing blackbird, great blue heron.
The Memory Palace
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We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles.
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The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight [FN#47] and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.
Arabian nights. English
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Look, the marsh marigolds we treasured have disappeared this spring gobbled by deer, overrun by reed canary grass but still the redwing blackbird sings.
Alice d’alessio | days we are given « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The blackcurrant bush is alive with the wings and chirps of greedy blackbirds gorging themselves.
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Blackbirds' eggs are pale blue with brown flecks on them.
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Oakshott's Barn, as they had done many and many a time before; a rabbit darted across the clearing, a blackbird called to his mate in the thicket, but save for this, nothing stirred; a great quiet was upon the place, a stillness so profound that Barnabas could distinctly hear the scutter of a rat in the shadows behind him, and the slow, heavy breathing of the sleeper down below.
The Amateur Gentleman
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Let me now describe an ordinary cruise of a "blackbirder" vessel -- an honest ship with an honest skipper and crew, and, above all, a straight
The Call Of The South 1908
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Old bird eyes that redbird, jumpy round rough blackbirds who have the sharper eye.
30x30
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It is an excellent place to watch forktails, redstarts, kingfisher, blackbirds etc.
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I ran in cargoes of kinky-heads from Malaita, which is in the Solomons, till I had twelve hundred of the blackbirds putting in cane.
THE PRINCESS
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We blackbirded from the New Hebrides and the Line Islands over to the westward clear through the Louisades, New Britain, New Ireland, and New Hanover.
South Sea Tales
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After the birds took flight they would have been completely disoriented and flying at a high rate of speed, "most likely about 25 mph, given my experience with their cousins, the tricolored blackbird," Meese says.
Fireworks likely cause of massive Ark. bird kill
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What would happen if a blackbird laid two eggs, one ending up in a condor's roost while the other lands in a human's egg basket?
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'Solomoni' community descended from Solomon Islanders 'blackbirded' from their homes in the nineteenth century to work as virtual slaves on Fiji's sugar and copra plantations.
ACNS News Digest
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We'd be out in the fields trying to flush pheasants, and flocks of migrating blackbirds would appear.
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After many years as supercargo, 'blackbirder' {*} and trader in the South
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
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The dictionary says it may come from the word "merle," meaning "blackbird.
Archive 2007-09-01
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He watched a brace of blackbirds harass a crow who wanted nothing more than to pursue his corvine business.
An Ill Fate Marshalling
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The blackbird in question is perched on a painted branch above the stairs, looking down with a beady eye on a mural which commemorates many of the Chip's staff and regulars.
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The marshes are excellent areas to see red-winged blackbirds, swallows, Virginia rails, and yellow-headed blackbirds.
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Blackbirds and jays are very good to practice on but the very best would be a coot, sometimes called crow duck or mudhen.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration
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Native species have recolonised, and now blackbirds forage among mouldering leaves of New World tulip trees, maples, paperbark birches and red oaks that decay into the soil alongside Old World durmast oak, alder, ash and rowan fallen foliage.
Country diary: Durham city
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The blackbird sat on the nest waiting for the return of her mate.
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A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully.
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Indeed, they made such a noise, that the great ugly black snakes lifted up their heads, and stared at them with their wicked spiteful-looking eyes, and the little ducklings swimming among the water-lilies gathered round their mother, and a red-winged blackbird perched on a dead tree gave alarm to the rest of the flock by calling out, _Geck_, _geck_, _geck_, as loudly as he could.
In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada
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cheepy-teet-teet" of the Pine Grosbeak, only louder and more broken, changing to the jingling of Blackbirds in spring, mixed with some Bluejay "jay-jays," and a Robin-like whistle; then I saw that it came from a Northern Shrike on the bushes just ahead of us.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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With a bobolink [a type of blackbird] for a chorister [singer in the choir],
Dean Sluyter: Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF
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He pointed out that not only pigeons live in the South Parade area, but ravens, jackdaws, collared doves, blackbirds, thrushes, wagtails, tits and the now-endangered house sparrow.
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The male ring ouzel in front of me was beautiful, like a dusty blackbird with a gorget of white across its breast.
A Year on the Wing
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We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles.
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Whenever all the media and political establishment are jumping on the telephone wire like a horde of blackbirds, embracing the same conventional wisdom about the results of an election, the usual rule to follow is to jump in the other direction.
Lanny Davis: Premature Celebration by Republicans?
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The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight47 and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The blackbird had a quick, wary look in case the cat was anywhere around.
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The preserve, wild with birdsong, was thick with robins, flickers, grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and doves.
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Others contributing to the soundtrack include the goldcrest, blackbird, thrush, chiffchaff, wren, mallard, coot and even the garden bully, the wood pigeon.
Beat winter blues with birdsong, National Trust urges
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The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action.
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Berry-bearing shrubs such as hawthorn, guelder rose, holly and cotoneaster might attract blackbirds, robins, song thrushes, bullfinches and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this country, unless the weather is severe, the birds frequent open country associating with redwings, blackbirds and yellowhammers.
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
How to get back to nature when camping
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The blackbird and the throstle a-praising Queen and King:
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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Blackbirds lay their eggs in March.
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The coal tit makes a nifty dash in and out while the dunnock forages underneath with some starlings and a pair of blackbirds.
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We know, in fact, that the starling is our greatest mimic, and that he often succeeds in recognizable reproductions of single notes, of phrases, and occasionally of entire songs, as, for instance, that of the blackbird.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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Jim LaCour said that the grackles, starlings, brown-headed cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds had broken beaks and backs.
Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana
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Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
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The blackbird , like most birds breeds in the spring.
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Jennifer Morgan Gray: Why did you decide to construct Blackbird House as interweaving stories in lieu of a more straightforward narrative structure?
A conversation with Alice Hoffman
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Unlike dowdy, brown females of the species, male blackbirds possess bright yellow-to-orange beaks and shiny black plumage.
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Kearton somewhere relates how he once induced a blackbird to sit on the eggs of a thrush, and a lapwing on those of a redshank.
Birds in the Calendar
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Bateman of the blackbirder NARI? he wondered; and had Captain
THE RED ONE
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The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch.
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Curiosity about blackbirds led them to do a little bookwork.
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The local robins have been singing to guard their territories all winter, of course, but over the last couple of days I've heard them joined by blackbirds, great tits, chaffinches, skylarks and a small brown stripey bird that I think was a dunnock, all proclaiming, "This is my bit, come and set up home with me!
Signs of spring
