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Blackbird Turdus merula
Kindrogan, Strathardle, Perthshire, Scotland 56° 45' 00.20" N 03° 33' 21.7" W 6 June 2013 06:51 Territorial song in old, thick spruce plantation with lots of moss and dead timber. [File
name: blackbird111140ecut]
Kensington Gardens, London, England 19 May 2013 Territorial song from inner city parkland. [File
name: blackbirdLS111026ecut]
Dean Castle Country Park, Ayrshire, Scotland 55° 37' 19.66" N 4° 29' 10.63" W 18 March 2012 0853h Blackbird singing low down inside mixed woodland. [File
name: blackbird0318_085324e_bestcut]
Dean Castle Country Park, Ayrshire, Scotland 55° 37' 19.66" N 4° 29' 10.63" W 18 March 2012 0852h High-pitched alarm call in response to a Sparrowhawk. [File
name: blackbird0318085209ecut]
Kindrogan Field Centre, Perthshire, Scotland 56° 44' 47.85" N 03° 32' 45.66" W 13 June 2018 Low and high pitched mobbing calls in response to a Tawny Owl. [File
name: blackbird115019ecut]
Dean Castle Country Park, Ayrshire, Scotland 55° 37' 19.66" N 4° 29' 10.63" W 18 March 2012 0915h "Chook-chook" alarm call uttered on the ground in response to a dog or the sound recordist. [File
name: blackbird0318091527ecut]
Dean Castle Country Park, Ayrshire, Scotland 55° 37' 19.66" N 4° 29' 10.63" W 18 March 2012 0908h Unusual song - like subsong in composition but sung at full volume from the ground. [File
name: blackbird0318090856e]
Forêt de Sidi-Bettache, Morocco 33° 39' 36.9" N 6° 53' 11.3" W 10 March 2014 "Chook-chook" alarm call uttered from a cork oak in response to the sound recordist. [File
name: blackbirdLS111837ecut]
Purfleet, Essex, England 51º 28' 52.62'' N 00º 13' 56.11"' E 27 April 2020 [nocmig recording] Call from a Blackbird in flight at night at 03:59. Short, high-pitched (6.3-9.1 kHz) srrri. [File
name: blackbird117157nocmig270420]
Purfleet, Essex, England 51º 28' 52.62'' N 00º 13' 56.11"' E 25 May 2020 [nocmig recording] Alarm call from a Blackbird in flight at dawn at 05:37. [File
name: blackbird117213nocmig250520]
Trent Country Park, London 51° 39' 34.31" N 0° 8' 16.78" W 21 March 2011, 1815h Territorial/advertising song at dusk, c25 metres in tree top, 12 phrases/min each lasting 2-3 secs with 3-4 second pause between each. [File
name: blackbird0321181855ecut]
Sunny Hill Park, London 22 March 2009, 1830h Territorial/advertising song at dusk, c10 metre in tree top, 9 phrases/min each lasting 1.5-2.5 secs with 5 sec pause between each.
Sunny Hill Park, London 22 March 2009, 1830h Unique phrases in territorial/advertising song at dusk: examples of single unique phrases from a varied repertoire. Slow frequency modulated pure tones between 1.5 and 3.0 kHz, often followed by more complex and higher-pitched flourish.
Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland December 2000 The familiar 'chinking' alarm call.
Brent Reservoir, London, England 51° 34' 36.0'' N 00° 14' 44.9'' W 9 May 2009 Aerial predator (hawk) 'seep' alarm call.
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