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Blackbird (Spring)
Bill Oddie presents the blackbird.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Bill Oddie presents the blackbird. Blackbirds are thrushes and the brown female often has a few speckles on her throat to prove it. Velvety, black and shiny, the males sport an eye-ring as yellow as a spring daffodil and a bill glowing like a buttercup. Happily blackbirds aren't doing too badly. There's so many of them that their territories often overlap so that where one song leaves off, another song begins.
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Sun 17 Apr 2022
08:58
成人快手 Radio 4
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
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Broadcasts
- Tue 4 Mar 2014 05:58成人快手 Radio 4
- Tue 10 Mar 2015 05:58成人快手 Radio 4
- Mon 7 Mar 2016 05:58成人快手 Radio 4
- Sun 13 Mar 2016 08:58成人快手 Radio 4
- Wed 18 Apr 2018 05:58成人快手 Radio 4
- Sun 1 Mar 2020 08:58成人快手 Radio 4
- Mon 5 Apr 2021 05:58成人快手 Radio 4
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