";s:4:"text";s:4330:" Blackbird, Eurasian blackbird The male is the 'black' bird, with deep orange to yellow bill, a narrow yellow eye-ring and dark legs. Overall, currently Common blackbirds are classified as Least Concern (LC) and their numbers today remain stable. Common Blackbird The bird runs for short distances, stops suddenly to turn its head sideways to detect its prey and hops while it digs the ground with its bill to attract worms. Towards summer’s end the beak starts to turn darker. The female is a brown bird, with some streaks or mottling, and has a dark bill and legs. Usually 3 to 4 eggs are laid, greenish and mottled with brown. white head, or white patches on the wings, see photographs below). The female is a brown bird, with some streaks or mottling, and has a dark bill and legs. Class Populations in the north and east migrate to winter in Egypt and the west and south-east of Asia. These birds will often take sun baths, while flattened on grass or warm ground, with their beak open and their head inclined, and wings and tails spread. Courtship displays begin very soon, often in February. Females are brown with streaky dark mottling on their paler, reddish brown breast. The adult male has black and glossy plumage overall. An elegant bird with a melodious song, the Common blackbird is rather territorial during the breeding period. It mainly forages on the ground, probing and scratching at leaf litter, lawns and soil.The Common Blackbird builds a cup-shaped nest of dried grass, bound with mud, and lined with fine grasses. There have been local decreases, however, especially on farmland, possibly due to agricultural policies encouraging farmers to remove hedgerows (where the birds nest), and increase their use of pesticides, and drain damp grassland, which may have reduced the amount of invertebrate food.According to the IUCN Red List, the total Common blackbird population size is around 162 million to 492 million individuals. Order Towards summer’s end the beak starts to turn darker. Its melodious song is appreciated by humans and it lives closer and closer to them. They climb into the vegetation around the nest to hide, where both parents feed them for two or three more weeks.
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