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UK
/blˈækbɜːd/
]
[ US /ˈbɫækbɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫækbɝd/ ]
NOUN
- any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black
- common black European thrush
How To Use blackbird In A Sentence
- The blackbird called to its mate.
- Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
- Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
- I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta.
- Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
- Birdsong enters the cottage from front and back - blackbirds, robins, finches.
- In this country, unless the weather is severe, the birds frequent open country associating with redwings, blackbirds and yellowhammers.
- A particularly spectacular blackbird arrival was recorded during November 5, 1961 following a north-westerly gale the previous day.
- They included four oropendolas and four caciques in a molecular study of blackbird relationships using cytochrome-b sequence data.
- Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder. THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN