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blackbird

Types of blackbirds include: (purple) grackle, (jack)daw, English thrush, red-winged blackbird, yellow-winged blackbird, rusty blackbird, yellow-headed blackbird, Brewer's blackbird;

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The notes of the blackbird are rich and full, but monotonous as compared with those of the song-thrush.
Of birds some species of parrakeet, the "mandarin" blackbird, and the woodcock are not found in the rest of Indo-China.
Oriole, the yellow-headed blackbird and McCown's longspur are characteristic of the open lowlands.
BLACKBIRD (Turdus merula), the name commonly given to a well-known British bird of the Turdidae family, for which the ancient name was ousel, Anglo-Saxon Osle, equivalent of the German Amsel, a form of the word found in several old English books.
It is rarer and more local than the common blackbird, and occurs in England only as a temporary spring and autumn visitor.

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