Sentence examples for common blackbird from inspiring English sources

Species with larger brain areas that were capable of producing a higher repertoire of syllables included the common blackbird (108 syllables) and the Eurasian skylark (341 syllables).

Depending on latitude, the common blackbird may be resident, partially migratory or fully migratory.

Many are pale blue speckled with fine brown dots and resemble those of the common blackbird.

The common blackbird breeds in temperate Eurasia, North Africa, the Canary Islands, and South Asia.

The common blackbird is one of a number of species which has unihemispheric slow-wave sleep.

The bill's appearance is important in the interactions of the common blackbird.

In theory that's the difference between common blackbirds (Turdus merula) and redwings (Turdus iliacus), gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) and common octopuses (Octopus vulgaris) and carrion crows (Corvus corone) and hooded crows (Corvus cornix).

88% of common blackbirds were found to have intestinal parasites, most frequently Isospora and Capillaria species.

Common blackbirds spend much of their time looking for food on the ground where they can become infested with ticks, which are external parasites that most commonly attach to the head of a blackbird.

Other common city birds are also taken regularly, including mourning doves, common wood pigeons, common swifts, northern flickers, common starlings, American robins, common blackbirds, and corvids (such as magpies or carrion, house, and American crows).

For example, differences in the frequencies of SERT alleles between urban and rural populations of common blackbirds (Turdus melura) suggest that genes associated with harm avoidance are under selection during urban colonisation events [ 29].