|
Eurasian Blackbird
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
|
Eurasian Blackbird
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
|
|
|
EURASIAN BLACKBIRD FACTS |
Description
Male: body black with yellow-orange bill and yellow-orange around the eye. Female: body dark brown, paler underneath with chin and throat white. Body up to 25 cm long.
Blackbirds were introduced to Australia in the 1850s and are now common and widespread. Males sing at both dusk and dawn.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Farmlands, urban parks and gardens.
Food
Omnivore
Range
South-eastern mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Turdidae | | Genus: | Turdus | | Species: | merula | | Common Name: | Eurasian Blackbird |
Relatives in same Genus
Song Thrush (T. philomelos)
Island Thrush (T. poliocephalus)
|
|
