Is a blackbird a Song Thrush?
The song thrush is smaller than a blackbird and is distinguished from the female blackbird by its pale cream underparts speckled with fawn-brown chevrons. The head, back and upper wings and tail are smooth grey-brown with indistinct streaking on the head.
What is the difference between a Song Thrush and a female blackbird?
Another bird that can sometimes cause confusion is the female blackbird. Male blackbirds are dark overall but female blackbirds are lighter and have spots on their breasts. But even the palest female blackbird is not as pale as the song or mistle thrush, and she has a fully yellow beak.
What is the difference between a thrush and a blackbird?
The song thrush (Turdus philomelos) is closely related to the blackbird, but is slightly smaller and lighter – about 23 centimetres long and 70 grams in weight. Both sexes have a yellow-brown back and wings, and lighter underside with regular rows of tapered brown spots.
Do blackbirds sing the same song?
This is the blackbird hour, the time around 3pm on March afternoons when the males sing at the same time. It’s gentle at first, a fine drizzle of notes, and then the volume swells and they warble full-throatedly, voices defending their territories.
Do blackbirds mate with thrushes?
Interbreeding with a thrush, whilst possible, is most unlikely. What you’re describing Derek, is just what I’m used to seeing in the crop of youngsters that visit my garden here. They start of looking very brown, like a female, but speckly. Then their primary feathers and tail go black, followed by the back.
Do female blackbirds look like thrushes?
The Song Thrush is smaller than either a Mistle Thrush or Blackbird and is less upright when standing. The sexes are similar with warm brown upper parts, pale buff underparts with dark speckles (which look like arrows pointing towards the head and are often arranged in lines) and a tinge of golden brown on the breast.
What do baby song thrushes look like?
Song thrushes have brown heads with a pale line from the base of the bill to the eyes. Their bills are black with pale yellow on their mandibles, eyes are dark brown, and legs and feet are pale pink. Juveniles look similar to adults with pale streaks on their backs.
Do blackbirds have different songs?
Calls, which are different to songs, come in a wide range of sounds. Most people will be familiar with the blackbird’s “fire alarm” call and that never-ending tick…
Do both male and female blackbirds sing?
Blackbirds are famously vocal and are the subject of many well-known songs and verses. In the popular nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence, 24 were baked in a pie, but even that didn’t stop them singing. Only the male bird is black – females are brown with a streaky breast.
Do blackbirds and thrushes fight?
They do chase of the Song Thrushes, and Song thrushes tend not to fight back. So out of all the Thrushes the Blackbirds seen to rule the roost on the garden department.