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Common Blackbird

Turdus merula

Common Blackbird
© Brian Stefan Jensen

Solsorten er en spurvefugl, der er udbredt over store dele af Europa samt dele af Asien, Australien og New Zealand. Det er Danmarks almindeligste fugl, og den yngler gerne i beboede områder.

Field marks

The male is all black with an orange-yellow bill and a yellow ; the female is dark brown with a faintly mottled, paler throat and breast and a bill ranging from brown to yellowish. Long tail, hops on the ground.

Can be confused with

  • Common Starling — Starling is glossy with a green-purple sheen and pale spots, a short tail, a pointed (yellow in spring) bill, and walks rather than hops.
  • Song Thrush — Song Thrush — the closest confusion for a female blackbird — has warm brown upperparts and a whitish breast with bold dark spots.
  • Ring Ouzel — The male Ring Ouzel has a pale crescent across its dark breast, plus light edges to the wing feathers.

Facts

Wingspan

36 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

thrushes

Turdidae

Read more

This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:

  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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