A Study of Blackbirds |
Contents
Preface I | 11 |
Plumages and moults | 18 |
Food and feeding habits | 25 |
Copyright | |
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adult aggressive behaviour aggressive posture alarm seee appears April attack autumn and winter average beak beginning breeding population breeding season breeding territory brood carrion crow cent chaffinch chased chinking chook Christ Church Meadow clutch-size clutches colour-ringed copulation courtship posture David Lack drought early spring eggs especially established February fights first-year birds first-year plumage fledged young garden birds Garden blackbirds ground habitats House Sparrow intruder June juvenile large number late later leaving the nest less Magdalen College School mainly mate Mistle Thrush moult neighbouring nest-sites nestlings normally number of young observations occasionally old birds old males Oxford Botanic Garden pair-formation parents parkland predators probably recorded ring ouzel ringed roost seems seen settled singing song thrushes Steinbacher subsong survived tail tawny owls terri territorial behaviour territory-holders trapped trees usually weather wings woodland worms Wytham yards young birds young blackbirds young females young males