| 单词 | blackbird |
| 例句 | The blackbirds cried louder and dove at her like pellets of hail. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “A rat killed a blackbird out at your place?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A blackbird was singing on the chestnut tree. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab at the earth with his yellow beak. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Harry shouted, his voice echoing across the empty hilltop, and several blackbirds rose into the air, squawking and spiraling against the pearly sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z So Nick let out a high, squeaky, blackbird “peep!” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Over five weeks, Darwin collected carcasses of finches, mockingbirds, blackbirds, grosbeaks, wrens, albatrosses, iguanas, and an array of sea and land plants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Out of reeds and willow trees sped a flock of red-winged blackbirds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But a blackbird, singing undisturbed on the outskirts of the wood, showed that there was nothing alarming there, and in the other direction, along the brook, all was plain to be seen, empty and quiet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A blackbird dropped down onto a privet hedge and, finding no satisfactory foothold, flew away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Redwinged blackbirds, whose shoulders were the same color as the berries, perched on a wood bridge, really a train trestle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet at so fearful a risk the farmers, with none to hinder them, waged their needless war on blackbirds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It looks like a gathering of blackbirds, everyone wearing black. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He sees a flock of blackbirds explode out of a tree. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know anything about blackbirds, because I’ve never seen one with my own eyes, but I know that I am one all the same. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A blackbird called one or two deep, slow notes and was followed by a wood pigeon. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were each reminded of that morning after their honeymoon night, when the pheasants and the yellow-headed blackbirds had adorned the road back to Alamosa. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I cry out, and a flock of startled blackbirds lifts from the snowy ground to merge with the black sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The child was still in high spirits, and blackbird Ben was helping Pantalaimon fly as high as he could, which was not quite high enough to reach the lowest branches of a light-bearing tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “A blackbird in a cage,” I said, flipping my hair the way Jackie flips hers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The words caused a fullness in me, and right at that moment an explosion of blackbirds lifted off the ground in a clearing a short distance away and filled up the whole sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear a blackbird, and sparrows, and a lark, for all the world as though it was already spring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Soon the ideographs lifted their feet, stretched out their wings, and flew like blackbirds; the dots were their eyes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Redwing blackbirds clung to reeds along the shoreline, chortling. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The immense war helmet he wore had the plumes of a blackbird and the horns of a stag beetle adorning it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I licked my thumb and wiped at that blackbird tattoo, leaving a smudgy black spot on my hand. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “A blackbird in a cage. Right on the back of his hand. Can you believe that?” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Several massive, shaggy work horses stood up to their knees in muck among dense cattail stands in which hundreds of noisy redwing blackbirds cavorted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z About a year later, Nick made the great blackbird discovery. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, madam. The robin was perky today. He sang quite a trill against one of the blackbirds who was greedy.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the past decade persistent reports of bird losses, especially among pheasants, ducks, and blackbirds, have come from the rice-growing counties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A blackbird began to sing, a loud, bright, warning song. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z What she looked like most was a blackbird that was caught in the rain. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z A faint breath of wind stole across the fields and a blackbird began to sing from somewhere beyond the elms. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackbird flew off his shoulder and vanished in midair, and there was the angel again, sulking in the half-light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Scrappy got a tattoo of a blackbird in a cage on the back of his hand,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The area was a favored roosting site for thousands of blackbirds that were feeding in nearby cornfields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the far comer of the field some blackbirds and three magpies were wading in the water and muck, hunting for choice tidbits. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the raspy caw-caw-caw of the blackbirds that ate the pawpaws in the garden. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She almost expected to see Dustfinger, but there was only a blackbird in the yard hopping over the stones, which were wet after the rain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The blade of blackbirds rising out of nowhere, brandishing and then gone? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Red winged blackbirds also came flying out of the south, and flocks of crows, and a bird with a yellow body and a scarlet head, which I had never seen before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The queer rasping call of the blackbird rose from the grass, and now and then they caught the flash of scarlet on the glossy black wings. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Two blackbirds were driving him down the sky, glittering as they attacked their enemy. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early spring of 1837, Gould told Darwin that the assorted varieties of wrens, warblers, blackbirds, and “Gross-beaks” that Darwin had sent him were not assorted or various at all. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had tossed Meggie up in the air, he had carried her around the house on his shoulders, he had taught her how to make a bookmark of a blackbird’s feathers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z One night he learned on a TV show that red-wing blackbirds give this high-pitched chirp when a hawk or some other danger comes near. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a warm golden evening and a blackbird was singing somewhere near by. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She moved with the quick steps of a thief, or a blackbird hunting insects, so sure and elegant that Tanin’s breath caught in her throat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A blackbird with a yellow beak flew into the open area and roosted on a tree branch. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z "A few more blackbirds, and we should have enough to bake a pie. I'll save you their feathers for a hat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In Texas, dead blackbirds, dickcissels, and meadowlarks were found at the nests, and many nests were deserted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her hair was thick, curly, the color of a blackbird’s wings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z So Nick told her about the blackbirds, and Janet thought it was pretty interesting. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A mob of red-winged blackbirds shrieked at one another from a crowded tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackbirds whistled it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the din of the smithies and the tune of the church bells. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The smart crows and redwing blackbirds knew when their chances of getting a bite of corn had improved! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Once we caught a wounded blackbird by throwing a blanket over it and figured we could make a blackbird pie, like in the nursery rhyme. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The form of the angel seemed to condense and swirl into a little vortex in midair, and then a blackbird swooped down onto the grass at Will’s feet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “So what do a blackbird’s wails and warbles have to do with finding our way out of the library?” said Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The sins were flying around that room like blackbirds in a cornfield. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He thought of Nok, her piercing blackbird eyes and the vengeful way she'd looked at him before he leaped from the cliff into the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z At the top of the bank, close to the wild cherry where the blackbird sang, was a little group of holes almost hidden by brambles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Parathion is not a specific for blackbirds: it is a universal killer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Somewhere nearby a meadowlark and a redwing blackbird sang their bright, cheery songs. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z A robin, I saw, a woodpecker, a magpie, a blackbird, and far off I think I heard a nightingale, though I’m not sure you get them in January. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A few robins, starlings, and blackbirds were still scavenging. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish I hadn’t started,” he thought unhappily as a pale-blue blackbird flew by. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The red-winged blackbirds could not see her and flew back to the reeds along the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the cart sat a hideous blackbird, big as a man, shaped like a man, with head hung forward like a molting crow. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The way she looked at him, with those keen blackbird eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z At the corner two bootblacks caught me, one on either side, shrill and raucous, like blackbirds. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at her. She has that southward concentration of migrating birds. I’ve seen it in robins and blackbirds.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A blackbird feather nestled in the leaves and pine needles beside the creek. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly some one passed below, whistling like an operatic blackbird, and a voice called out, “All serene! Coming in tonight.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z An easel appeared, the blackbird struck a pose, and the outdoorsy artist started painting the bird’s portrait, while humming “Blackbird” by the Beatles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Above the square, a whirl of agitated blackbirds circled through the air. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z When Hazel praised him, he muttered something about “the first time any rabbit’s done this and don’t tell the blackbirds.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We took the Crab Creek trail for 2 miles, guided by the antics of red-winged blackbirds in the thick riparian vegetation. For summer fun in Potholes State Park, just add water (and sand dunes) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z A group of blackbirds is called "a murder of crows." New in crime fiction: Michael Gruber, Elizabeth George, Robert Dugoni and Jon Talton 2010-05-05T22:33:00Z Mr. Cooper has loved birds since growing up on Long Island and being struck at the age of 10 by the sight of red-winged blackbirds. A Birder Is Back in the Public Eye, Now on His Own Terms 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Stone rolls up her blouse to show a pair of blackbird feet tattooed on her left wrist. Emma Stone is soaring with 'Cabaret' and 'Birdman' roles 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z As he travels around his house searching, he encounters numbered packs of animals doing silly things: blackbirds in the shower, crocs waiting in line for an outdoor toilet. Books That Captivate Babies and Toddlers 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “I liked the blackbirds,” he said, his eyes sorting through the mess in front of him. “What we talked about was the work”: The nourishing intimacy of the writer-mentor relationship 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Fires rage before acres of black earth, and skeletons lie tangled in darkness; a single prisoner, stranded in the snow, looks goggle-eyed at a pair of blackbirds on a barbed-wire fence. The Survivor of Auschwitz Who Painted a Forgotten Genocide 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z She recalled certain images: heat lightning traveling from cloud to cloud, tall grasses, gas flares on the horizon, droves of red-winged blackbirds. ‘You Can’t Stand in Louisiana and See a Glacier’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z In the new movie, it's what looks like a gigantic redwing blackbird. The power of Hannah Waddingham's character Mother Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z “I was just reading the other day that three million birds have disappeared, and one they mentioned was red-winged blackbirds,” she said. ‘You Can’t Stand in Louisiana and See a Glacier’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “One is more likely,” he writes about television nature shows, “to see some monster coupling at the bottom of Lake Baikal than an ordinary blackbird.” Frame: Dog Art at Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library 2012-02-09T23:58:21Z One transcript, in which a witness claims he saw Frau Kepler in the form of a blackbird, sounds like Monty Python’s “Dead Parrot” sketch: Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Hitchcock’s The Birds is referenced twice in the first 10 pages, with its iconic blackbirds returning as a metaphor throughout. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z Later, a male redwing blackbird danced along a boardwalk handrail, showing off its crimson wing spots. Pick a park for an Eastside bird-watching walk, from Bellevue to Issaquah 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But celebrity can be a lonely state, and Noni, in the glare of her fame, feels invisible, as unloved and unrecognized as Nina Simone’s blackbird. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z At first I thought it was only a blackbird. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z A mention of a blackbird draws on the archives of the ornithological unit; any reference to winter triggers a whitened landscape. TV matters: The Life of Muhammad 2011-07-06T20:30:01Z In “Songbirds,” the bristling branches of a flowering mountain laurel are just as correct — in minute gradations of pink — and nearly as dynamic as the undulating line of flying orioles, cardinals, chickadees and blackbirds. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Hudson River Explorers,’ in Yonkers 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z "The sky it burns, the blackbirds cry / in this world where I will die," runs one number, while another quotes Vonnegut on mankind's existential confusion. Reverend Billy ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:04Z And the ensemble Mr. Muhly chided, the one formerly known as eighth blackbird? where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z There is a beautiful moment when the narrator wants Jenny to hear the song of a blackbird. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z A vulture picking at road kill stared as we drove by, and little red-winged blackbirds flushed from the fields. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z A lone red-winged blackbird kept up a steady chatter as we both lingered above the wetlands on a raised observation platform. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The Chicago contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird received nominations in two categories, best chamber music/small ensemble performance and best classical contemporary composition, for its album "Meanwhile," released on Chicago's Cedille label. Grammy Awards: Frank Ocean, 5 other artists get 6 nominations 2012-12-06T04:05:00Z OK, speaking of leaps of faith, follow me here: This blackbird wants my oatmeal. I’m pansexual. Deal with it 2012-08-03T00:00:00Z In addition, the Loops and Variations series that debuted last year on Thursday evenings, will return with Dan Deacon, Matmos and eighth blackbird, among others. Free Downtown Sound lineup includes Sharon Van Etten, Glen Hansard, Dessa 2013-04-02T14:45:00Z The narrator dozes in the front seat of the car and wakes to find a blackbird hopping toward her. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Returning from the ends of the earth, Hoare finds that, for all the journeying, one may never hear anything so beautiful as a blackbird in a suburban garden. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z Is the female blackbird not more brown than she is black? Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z I saw an osprey, a great egret, several red-winged blackbirds, but no woodpeckers. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Some companies also made similarly styled elephants, giraffes, pigs, dragons, and mustached chefs, among others, but the most popular was the blackbird. All about pie birds, the whimsical Victorian-era baking tool 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Cardinals, juncos, jays, nuthatches, tufted titmice and rusty blackbirds — the blackbirds were unusual here, possibly driven astray by storms — also arrived for treats, though none came as close. Eagle-Eyed Urbanites? Winter Treks 2011-02-17T21:01:12Z They echo the struggle of every other living thing from the blackbird hunting for food in winter to the oyster in the river mud. Alice Oswald on the Devonshire landscape: 'There's a terror in beauty' 2012-07-13T11:17:14Z I am sitting outside at Java Beach in the chilly August fog and this blackbird wants my oatmeal. I’m pansexual. Deal with it 2012-08-03T00:00:00Z Until 2pm, when the skies filled with what looked like "hundreds of blackbirds", who rained death on London for the next nine hours. Holidate 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z By Frau Kepler, in the form of a blackbird. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Suddenly there was an explosion of bird chatter — the evening song of blackbirds known locally as X’Kau — a reminder that, for all the golf courses and Porsche dealerships, we were still in the jungle. Shaped by Mérida’s Artistic Soul 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But an intrusive blackbird contradicts each answer: That thing is not beautiful, it says; maybe just tasty or useful or cozy. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The lament of a mourning dove is accompanied by the shrill urgency of a red-winged blackbird flitting between field and power line. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Red-winged blackbirds flashed their shoulder patches, and a pair of ospreys rubbernecked us as they glided overhead. Millions of horseshoe crabs spawn on the shores of Delaware Bay each year. Here’s how to see them. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Typical sentence: “Clive looked straight up at a raucous blackbird scolding him.” Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z The morning air was cool and still, sunlight was warm, the occasional red-winged blackbirds warned us away from nests. Three Ways to Let Fresh Asparagus Shine 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z For many, the thought of medieval dining recalls “four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie,” from the popular 18th century English nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence.” Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z For example, in an attempt during the 1970s to reduce excessive numbers of blackbirds without killing them, a substantial number of territorial males were surgically sterilized. Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Except for the trill of a few blackbirds, a stunning silence encircles the church, its facade of alternating lavender marble and straw-colored onyx fusing into a bright white in the sun. The Medieval Monasteries of Kosovo 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The narrator touches her arm to calm her and just a few moments later, “the blackbird sets out on its long, complicated song. It was waiting all the time for us to get settled.” Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “I was of three minds,/ Like a tree/ In which there are three blackbirds.” Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z At Warm Springs Park, where the trail edges a marsh, red-winged blackbirds clung to cattails. Brew-ha-ha: Biking to breweries in Boise 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In the garden, we spend a long time watching a blackbird. New Zeeland: happy returns to the Netherlands coast 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z We stayed miraculously dry in our tent during a night of thunderstorms and steady rain, awakening to a symphony of birdsong, including the throaty warble of the red-winged blackbird. This secluded state park on the Chesapeake Bay offers an alternative to summer’s crowds 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos, The blackbird whistling Or just after. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Before he left, he noticed a Browning .22-caliber rifle that she kept around to kill armadillos and scare blackbirds and squirrels away from her bird feeder. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z Think about the people of Arkansas who wondered if they were witnessing the 5,000 blackbirds of the apocalypse. Fireworks are America’s favorite face exploding, dog torturing, bird murdering way to celebrate its birthday 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z A team including Koopmans first reported the appearance of Usutu in the Netherlands in 2016, when it killed a large number of blackbirds. Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Olive farmer Angel said since introducing cover crops he noticed an increase in birds such as owls, blackbirds, turtle doves, hoopoes and reptiles such as the near-threatened ocellated lizard. In climate fight, Europe's olive, wine farmers turn to tech and tradition 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The autobiographical show looks at many things including his quest for identity and is billed as "a story about cross dressing, dressmaking, midlife crisis and blackbirds". Edinburgh Fringe: Norwich leatherworker Simeon Morris wins award 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z “We used to do clam digging and seal hunting and some blackbird hunting there,” says Kelly Rosales, historic preservation officer for the Hoh Tribe. Erosion forces Olympic National Park to take a hard look at Kalaloch Lodge 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “I was of three minds,” wrote Wallace Stevens, “Like a tree/In which there are three blackbirds.” The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Flocks of birds are settling in — swallows, wrens, ducks, egrets, chattering red-winged blackbirds. A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z According to Dr. Doolittle’s research, the song patterns of Eurasian blackbirds found in that region resemble Stravinsky’s compositional style. It Rocks in the Tree Tops, but Is That Bird Making Music? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z A blackbird is closer to the prototypical bird than a penguin is, for example. People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word ‘Penguin’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z American coots, herons, ibises and blackbirds are flocking to flooded farmland and roads, said Miguel Jimenez, who oversees the Kern National Wildlife Refuge, at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The Resurrection of Tulare Lake 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z In the poem, Stevens found 13 different ways of looking at a blackbird. The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Birds that once wintered at Tulare Lake — ibises, blackbirds and American coots — are returning in increasing numbers. Tulare Lake Was Drained Off the Map. Nature Would Like a Word. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Scientists had plenty of theories when migratory sparrows, flycatchers, blackbirds, swallows, warblers and other birds in the southwestern United States turned up dead or dying in August and September of 2020. Weather whiplash: How climate change killed thousands of migratory birds 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z He listened to birds singing and could soon tell the difference between a blackbird and a thrush. Death? Bill Nighy will worry about that later 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Designated a National Wildlife Area in 2022, it's home to a diverse mix of northern wildlife, including woodland caribou, peregrine falcons, wood bison, wolverines and rusty blackbirds, according to Canadian government data. The world is struggling to figure out conservation. First Nations have some ideas 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z How you regard a blackbird or an origin hypothesis may be influenced by where you’re coming from. The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Brighter bills in blackbirds and zebra finches do the same thing. For some wolves, a black coat isn’t just fashionable—it’s a lifesaver 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z I missed walking outside to the chirpy song of a red-winged blackbird first thing in the morning, the downy woodpeckers tapping away on our old maple tree. Perspective | Creating a garden as a refuge for pollinators — and myself 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Now my conclusion—that the blackbirds return every mid- March—seems much weaker. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A drop-off of 3 billion North American birds in recent decades has consisted largely of insect eaters, from the whip-poor-will to redwing blackbirds and barn swallows. Backyard mosquito spraying booms, but may be too deadly 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Red-winged blackbirds sang, and pairs of scarlet dragonflies circled over the water. Where a river no longer meets the sea, a pulse of water revives part of Mexico’s dry delta 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Beyond the vacuum’s reach, half a dozen blackbirds picked through the flotsam, while outside the boom, plastic bottles bobbed downstream. Saving a Texan Bayou, ‘16 Bottles’ at a Time 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Bruce said he doesn’t have much love for the grackles, starlings and blackbirds that vacuum up all the seed he puts out in the winter. Perspective | Some people are irritated by the weirdest things. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Earlier in the chapter I used a generalization about the return of the red-winged blackbirds in March. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z It said blossoming trees were a great source of pollen for bees and autumn fruit growing from blossom provided food for thrushes, blackbirds and other wildlife. Photographers capture beautiful blossom displays in East Midlands 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z He’s also fascinated by the way starlings can intermingle and even roost with native species, such as red-winged blackbirds. The Shakespearean Tall Tale That Shaped How We See Starlings 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The birds that were too late to hit the brakes in the video are yellow-headed blackbirds, a migratory species first described in 1825 by the nephew of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. A viral video of birds falling from the sky sparked countless theories. But there’s a likely answer. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z According to the National Audubon Society, yellow-headed blackbirds are often seen flying in flocks of thousands. Scientists think they know why hundreds of birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Mexico 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z A hasty generalization was made in the red-winged blackbird case above. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A video of a flock of yellow-headed blackbirds crashed into the ground in Mexico, a phenomenon that shook the internet last week. Fox News: Hillary dodges questions 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Police in the Mexican city of Chihuahua have reported close to 100 yellow-headed blackbirds suddenly falling out of the sky. The surreal moment blackbirds drop dead mid-flight 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Now, for the thousands of yellow-headed blackbirds that survived and will make their way back north, the ornithologist had a piece of advice. A viral video of birds falling from the sky sparked countless theories. But there’s a likely answer. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But a system that requires more people to buy more guns and ammunition to save monarch butterflies or tricolor blackbirds isn’t a system designed to address 21st-century problems. ‘An Environmentalist With a Gun’: Inside Steven Rinella’s Hunting Empire 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z For example, I have noticed that every year, around the second week of March, the red-winged blackbirds return from wherever they’ve wintering. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Opening with observations about a nearby warbling blackbird, Despret immerses readers into the world as it is perceived by those with wings, beaks and talons. A philosopher of science explains how birds perceive time and space differently than humans 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z "The blackbird was kind of like my friend," he says. Martyn Stewart: The David Attenborough of sound 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Residents said habitats for local finches, robins and blackbirds and other wildlife had been lost. Linthorpe Lidl tree felling prompts petition against supermarket 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z They focused on 82 relatively common species, like robins and blackbirds. The COVID-19 lockdown was for the birds—in a good way 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The impacted species include blackbirds, flycatchers, sparrows, swallows, warblers and the western wood pewee. Massive numbers of birds are dying in New Mexico and no one knows why 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z France is unusual in Europe for still tolerating the glue method, used to catch thrushes and blackbirds. French hunters must stop using glue to trap birds 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Redwing blackbirds trill over the bellowing of hundreds of cattle clustered by corrals, the sign of a spring branding in progress. Is the way cattle are grazed the key to saving America's threatened prairies? 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z It shows a low-flying eagle, with a fish caught in its talons and its wings spread with the blackbird perched on its back. Red-winged blackbird photographed hitching ride on bald eagle’s back 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z For some species that became less common near roads, such as red-winged blackbirds, it’s possible that lighter traffic might have enabled their predators easier access to them and their nests, Koper says. The COVID-19 lockdown was for the birds—in a good way 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z There was all the talk of birdsong in the early days, but now I know where the blackbirds roost in the lilac. Overcoming fears, discovering nature ... what I have learned from lockdown 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The first to start singing are blackbirds and robins, piping up at about 4.20am. Lockdown yields first global sound map of spring dawn chorus 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The chapters were short, illustrated with falling leaves and pencil drawings of raccoons and blackbirds, opossums and owls. ‘Wishing tree’ lets neighbors express hopes during pandemic 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z “They are catching mostly pigeons but also swallows and blackbirds. They’re also going after fish in the Tiber. Luckily, they are also eating rats. Animals are changing their habits as we change ours.” Rome seagulls hunt rats, pigeons as coronavirus lockdown deprives them of human scraps 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Researchers studying yellow warbler responses to the parasitic cowbird realized that red-winged blackbirds were eavesdropping and reacting too. Red-winged Blackbirds Understand Yellow Warbler Alarms 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In other parts of the UK, active newts were recorded in Cheshire in December and a blackbird was spotted building a nest at the beginning of January. Warmer winters 'puts species at risk' 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Dr Lisa Gill, who is analysing the results, said: “Some are simply beautiful: the golden oriole, the peacefulness of raindrops and blackbird song.” Lockdown yields first global sound map of spring dawn chorus 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z In a 2012 study, scientists concluded that climate change had likely contributed to the decline of the once-common rusty blackbird, which has seen its range in Maine retract northward as temperatures have risen. These State Birds May Be Forced Out of Their States as the World Warms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z They included sparrows, swallows, blackbirds, thrushes, finches, warblers and meadowlarks. Bird numbers plunge in U.S. and Canada with people to blame 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Twelve groups, including sparrows, warblers, finches, and blackbirds, were particularly hard hit. Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z But single-meaning natural words, such as "lawn", "twig", "blackbird", "fishing", "paddle", "sand", "paw" and "shell", also decreased in frequency among young people. Nature's words hijacked by technology 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z And what a photo: A solitary red-winged blackbird perches atop a leafless shrub. Perspective | An award-winning nature photo was snapped in the wilds of Fairfax County 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Male red-winged blackbirds often become aggressive to protect their territory and their females, according to Colorado Outdoors magazine. 'Dive-bombing' bird attacks Colorado joggers, disturbing video shows 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Pheasants top the list of bird fatalities to date, followed by woodpigeons and blackbirds. Badgers lead mammal roadkill list 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Outside, two blackbirds landed one after the other on the electric wire. Who gets to be an American? Laila Lalami explores in California thriller 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z They were still talking when the blackbirds flew from the awning and the great iron cat roared around the bend, all black smoke and earsplitting clanking. “Conduction” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Kathrin visits often and was familiar with how in cold weather a lustily-singing red-winged blackbird creates what look like smoke rings with its exhalations. Perspective | An award-winning nature photo was snapped in the wilds of Fairfax County 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Volunteer coordinator Claire Morgan and helpers escorted them to a reservoir to lay eggs amid a backdrop of cattails and blackbirds. Roadblock ahead: Amphibian crossing 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z A redwing blackbird landed on their bird feeder out back. Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguish it from singing blackbirds. Garden bird winners and losers over 40 years 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z When I reached the Clarksburg station, I spotted Hawkins and Bland sitting beneath a red awning, where a flock of blackbirds perched. “Conduction” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But sightings of two of the UK's most recognisable birds, blackbirds and robins, fell. Public urged to join garden bird watch 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Before he even parked, Prum was calling out the names of birds he glimpsed or heard through the car window: osprey, purple martin, red-winged blackbird. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z I first read about Bald Knob, Arkansas, in 2010, after thousands of poisoned blackbirds dropped dead from the sky in nearby Beebe. The gun-toting Republicans who care about climate change as much as you do 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Officials say a bald eagle, red-tailed hawk and dozens of red-winged blackbirds and European starlings were found dead in a field in Hillsboro earlier this week. Authorities investigating mass bird death in Hillsboro 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Walking these trails, I saw blackbirds, warblers, spotted towhees and meadowlarks. Beside a defunct nuclear site, Hanford Reach’s protected wildlife refuge is prime birding territory 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Somehow, when I listened to the song of a blackbird in the garden, I found it incredibly calming. Opinion | In Life’s Last Moments, Open a Window 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Asked by Radio 2 in 1996 who her favourite singer was, Bush said it was the blackbird, and her second favourite was the thrush. Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! 60 unbelievable facts about Kate Bush 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z All this research seems to point in one direction: that the urban blackbird is evolving into a separate species, a case of true speciation. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Swallows, gulls and terns, crows, blackbirds and orioles, tyrant flycatchers and parids—all practice mobbing. Political Harassment Is for the Birds 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Here, though, you’ll see a “blackbird shift & shatter like / A vessel of ink”; you’ll learn that “Bird got so high on horn, he disappeared.” The right poetry collection for right now: Terrance Hayes' 'American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin' 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The red-winged blackbird was chosen because it is abundant and represents the local ecology. Cannon Beach delays vote on official bird 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The scientists also reversed the scenario, dropping host eggs from wrens, mockingbirds, and blackbirds onto cowbird eggs. Cowbird eggshells could double as deadly weapons 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Whether it’s due to those different beaks is not sure yet, but urban blackbirds sound different too. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z You compare the urban blackbird to Darwin’s finches, in terms of its importance to the study of city ecology. In Cities, Wildlife Evolves Astonishingly Fast 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Red-winged blackbirds are what people in the community see every day, and serve as a better representative of the area’s ecology, Maine said. Blackbird could edge puffin as Cannon Beach’s official bird 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Crows and gulls may thrive at our garbage dumps, blackbirds and cowbirds at our farms’ feedlots, robins and bulbuls in our city parks. The radical otherness of birds: Jonathan Franzen on why they matter 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Great-tailed grackles, for instance, belong to the same family as blackbirds and orioles—a group not often considered particularly smart. Why Ravens and Crows Are Earth’s Smartest Birds 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The urban background noise forces the blackbird songsters to change their pitch and timing. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The blackbird is one of the few cases where it seems there is in fact a new species evolving. In Cities, Wildlife Evolves Astonishingly Fast 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z “It’s the idea that every bird counts, even common ones like red-winged blackbirds,” Maine said. Blackbird could edge puffin as Cannon Beach’s official bird 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Five red-winged blackbirds, which do not hammer their heads against trees, provided the control samples. Woodpeckers show possible brain damage like that in football players 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Eight of the ten woodpecker brains came back positive for deposits—but all of the blackbirds’ came back negative. Could woodpeckers teach the NFL how to prevent brain injuries? 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Forest blackbirds open their beaks only at dawn. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z All these things prevent them from crossbreeding with forest blackbirds, which is also a crucial step in producing a new species. In Cities, Wildlife Evolves Astonishingly Fast 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Haystack Rock Awareness Program Director Melissa Keyser also serves on the committee and said while her program is naturally partial to tufted puffins, she embraces the red-winged blackbird as an official bird. Blackbird could edge puffin as Cannon Beach’s official bird 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Researchers from the federal Agriculture Department and universities in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa will present findings on sunflower studies dealing with diseases, insects, irrigation and blackbirds. Sunflower research forum set in North Dakota this week 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z For comparison, they also got five brains from a non-head-banging species, the red-winged blackbird. Could woodpeckers teach the NFL how to prevent brain injuries? 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z By that time, the blackbirds in the city are already smugly ensconced in their nests. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z So the blackbird is a good example of a real urban species that is in the process of evolving, similar to the Darwin finches evolving in the Galapagos Islands. In Cities, Wildlife Evolves Astonishingly Fast 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z He said a blackbird that identically resembles one of her tattoos flew into a window late at night, and then returned to sit on his foot shortly afterward. Amy Winehouse’s father says ghost of ‘Rehab’ singer appears on his bed: ‘I get nervous’ 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z So colly birds likely refer to blackbirds, according to the library. Do Partridges Really Live in Pear Trees? 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Thrushes, blackbirds, redwings and fieldfares feast on berries throughout the winter. Why are there so many berries this year? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Approaching it, I saw a large blackbird fly away from the area carrying a ball in his mouth, and then drop it. Ask Golf Digest: What Happens When A Bird Improves Your Lie? - Golf Digest 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z “You guys hear that? It’s a red-winged blackbird,” adds Moon, director of the Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport. Group gives blind visitors a chance to appreciate birds 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z “I do now see blackbirds all the time. And you think, ‘Oh, it’s only a bird,’ but it’s her, I’m sure of it.” Amy Winehouse’s father says ghost of ‘Rehab’ singer appears on his bed: ‘I get nervous’ 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Then, two more blackbirds swooped in and grabbed at her hair. Dive-bombing blackbirds have some joggers running scared 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z “That means it was plucked. So the blackbird was killed by a bird of prey, not a fox.” Running Free in Germany’s Outdoor Preschools 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z She calls herself a “blackbird” migrating back to where there’s not just warmer weather but the type of large, black, middle-class population she never found in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh African Americans find New South more appealing 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Grackles, red-winged blackbirds and woodpeckers are just plain early birds this year. Early bird special: Spring pops up super early in much of US 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z On Nov. 2, about 12 to 18 dead birds - mostly red-winged blackbirds were reported in a rural section of Cumberland County. Officials still probing deaths of 200 birds in south Jersey 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Dooley’s roommate was walking over the lower bridge when a Brewer’s blackbird flew down and got caught in her hair. Dive-bombing blackbirds have some joggers running scared 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z She asked the children to guess who “killed” the blackbird. Running Free in Germany’s Outdoor Preschools 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Regionally, “colley” in the southeast of Britain in the past referenced a blackbird. It’s four ‘colley’ birds, not ‘colly’ or ‘calling’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Once called colly birds — an ancient term for blackbirds — they are ringing up at $599.96, the same as last year. How’s the Economy? Just Look at How Much Celebrating ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ Will Cost 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Courtiers swooped across the stage with open umbrellas, like a flock of blackbirds; when they stopped and turned, the Queen was suddenly revealed among them, facing her prisoner. The Dynamism of Janet McTeer 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Back on my friend’s balcony, I peered through the branches at that nesting blackbird. Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z “Three people in the snow / getting rid of themselves / breath by breath,” Oswald writes, in “Slowed-Down Blackbird”: “and every six seconds a blackbird.” Alice Oswald’s Natural Terrors 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In another instance of mobbing, a visitor to a national wildlife refuge in the Great Plains captured the moment a red-winged blackbird was riding atop a red-tailed hawk in August 2015. Dolphins on Whales, and Other Animals Riding Animals “For the song sparrow, red-winged blackbird and yellow warbler, we got a similar rate of detections from our recordings as from the ground,” he says. Me and my drone: how automatons are changing research 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z A chorus of dickcissel birds sang as blackbirds dipped, dived and screeched at humans strolling dangerously close to their nests. Iowa farmers ripped out prairie; now some hope it can save them 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Early in the 19th century, probably in Germany, blackbirds began settling in cities. Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z The pair’s deep, chesty squawks echoed across the marsh, joining a chorus of croaking green frogs, whistling red-winged blackbirds and buzzing insects. St. Paul composer retreats to Afton for nature’s soundtrack 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z That’s actually a common scene, scientists say, since blackbirds are among the species that routinely harass birds of prey in an attempt to drive them away from blackbirds' nests. Dolphins on Whales, and Other Animals Riding Animals He pointed out mud nests that barn swallows have built in the rafters of hangars and places where blackbirds flock, in the grass, and sometimes inside the airplanes parked on a ramp. At Westchester Airport, Bald Eagles (and Their Friends) Dare 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Other new breeding species include the eastern meadowlark, known for its sharp call; the blue grosbeak, a striking blue relative of the cardinal; and the bobolink, a bumblebee-colored blackbird that migrates 12,500 miles annually. Where Coyotes, Foxes and Bobolinks Find a New Home: Freshkills Park 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Our urbanized environments favor bird species that are flexible in their eating and foraging habits, and willing to do bold, innovative things, like blackbirds or grackles or sparrows. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment Red-winged blackbirds trilled from the brush, as Tom Jr. headed into one of the nearby pastures. 5 generations tend Boulder Valley family ranch 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z “To put a sandhill crane or a bald eagle or, goodness knows, a yellow-headed blackbird in the background would be cool.” The Stamp That’s Dividing Birders, Hunters and Conservationists 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Results revealed blackbirds are still most common playground visitor, with 86% of the schools which took part spotting at least one. RSPB says mild winter boosts Scottish garden bird sightings - BBC News 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Their velvety calls are a bass accompaniment to the revelry of red-winged blackbirds, Carolina wrens and cardinals as they welcome spring back to New York City. The Mourning Dove, a Melancholy Crooner 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z On either side of the dirt path we walked on toward the pond were fields of yarrow, bright as buttercups and, above them, swooping flocks of blackbirds, smudges of ominous black upsetting the blue. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z I mapped every blackbird nest in our area and put them down in charts. Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z In another instance of mobbing, a visitor to a National Wildlife Refuge in the Great Plains captured the moment a red-winged blackbird was riding atop a red-tailed hawk in August. 2015 Was a Big Year for Animals Riding Animals 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Some motifs cross chapters – the song of a blackbird, a tortoise’s crawl – but the essays, like her night-time memories, are given freedom to roam. Diana Athill: ‘I expected to be shattered at the loss of my baby, and I wasn't' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z He packed binoculars and field guides and taught her to spot herons and blackbirds. Many Long Walks in Prospect Park, on Duty, Then a Kiss 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Cox said the picture most likely captures a perfect moment during a fight between a blackbird and a hawk—and that blackbirds attacking and harassing hawks is actually quite common. Rare Picture: Blackbird "Rides" Hawk 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z And I failed utterly to work out what made a blackbird tick.” Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z He nearly starved on a diet of feathered blackbirds. Donald Trump meet Everett Alvarez, who was a POW even longer than John McCain 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Numbering in the millions a half century ago, the San Joaquin Valley's tricolored blackbirds plummeted by around 75 percent since 2011, triggering an endangered listing by the state last December. Birds Are Dying As Drought Ravages Avian Highways 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z A woman’s corpse is sewn into a horse’s womb, and after she’s cut out the doctors feel a heartbeat in her torso; they slice her open and a live blackbird flies out. The Savory Spectacle of “Hannibal” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Talk about a bird's eye view—a red-winged blackbird was recently photographed "riding" atop a red-tailed hawk. Rare Picture: Blackbird "Rides" Hawk 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The family moved to Sheffield, where it was the blackbird in the garden he couldn’t stop thinking about. Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Oddly, despite their name, meadowlarks are not true larks but rather are members of the blackbird family. Populations of North Dakota’s state bird in serious decline 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Think four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie is only a nursery rhyme? How Did Shakespeare's Kitchen Differ From Today's? 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Authorities counted 38 dead golden eagles and 336 other dead protected birds, including hawks, blackbirds, larks, wrens and sparrows. PacifiCorp Energy pleads guilty in bird deaths 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “In fact we probably see that occurrence of blackbirds dive-bombing red-tailed hawks about every day we’re in the field,” he says. Rare Picture: Blackbird "Rides" Hawk 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z I went down to the local library and read everything I could about blackbirds. Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The blackbirds once were common in the Central and Sacramento valleys, where they nested in wetlands and fields. New protections for California blackbirds 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Instead, Greenwood is attacking the squawking blackbirds by cutting down the trees where they live. Greenwood attacks blackbirds where they live 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Butterflies flitted about in the late spring sunshine, but the blackbird was on a mission. Blackbird defending nest takes aim at trail users 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Grackles are members of the blackbird family, Icteridae. Pushing the envelope in the book club world I got a blackbird brain and pickled it in formalin, and would sleep holding it, wondering whether its wisdom would diffuse into me. Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Sitting in his living room in Reistertown, which is decorated with stuffed blackbirds and antique tools, Ridgely described the county’s recent evolution. Carroll County board votes to resume sectarian prayers 2014-05-10T01:29:35Z Physical deformities in a population of wintering blackbirds. Thrilling encounters with freak passerine birds 2014-05-05T22:52:44Z As with nearly all songbirds, the nests of red-winged blackbirds are protected under federal law and it would be against the law to disturb them, Case said. Blackbird defending nest takes aim at trail users 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Flocks of blackbirds and grackle are moving through. City Room: New York Today: Dawn of Spring 2014-03-20T10:00:10Z I stuffed a blackbird and it circled on a piece of thread above my head when I went to sleep at night. Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Red-winged blackbirds are strong fliers, and they flock together as summer cools to autumn. City Room: The Herald Above the Reeds 2014-03-07T22:00:25Z Each way of looking, not looking, or just being in the presence of the blackbird reveals something about it, but only something. The Mapmakers: The Brain, in Exquisite Detail 2014-01-10T04:08:28Z Urban blackbirds grow up faster than their country cousins. 100 things we didn't know last year 2013-12-27T02:18:03Z Robert Trevis-Smith used a clever technique to underexpose this image and said: “It works best with blackbirds because they sort of blend into the dark background.” Nature's 12 days of Christmas 2013-12-25T02:42:44Z The second is that blackbirds and many other species may be quickly evolving new behaviors in response to our rapidly urbanizing world. Urbanization Alters Bird Behavior 2013-08-15T03:15:05.860Z Like sparrows, female red-winged blackbirds are well camouflaged, and at first glance are hard to differentiate except for their larger size and longer bill. City Room: The Herald Above the Reeds 2014-03-07T22:00:25Z There is no need, no intention and perhaps no chance, of ever “solving” a poet’s blackbird. The Mapmakers: The Brain, in Exquisite Detail 2014-01-10T04:08:28Z The scientists attached tiny 2.2-gram radio-pulse transmitters to blackbirds living in Munich, Germany, as well as to those living in a nearby forest. City Life Turns Blackbirds into Early Birds 2013-06-05T15:45:00.347Z Researchers measured the circadian rhythms - the 24-hour cycle of biological activity - of urban and rural blackbirds in southern Germany. Biological clocks 'faster' in cities 2013-06-04T23:33:00Z The weather is also bad for birds who have open nests, like song thrushes and blackbirds. 10 consequences of the late spring 2013-05-28T09:59:34Z The fake eggs were made to be similar to the eggs of cuckoos that naturally lay eggs in the nests of blackbirds and song thrushes. Birds arrange eggs in their nests to better detect imposters 2013-05-08T22:45:05.467Z Historian Turner said that the blackbird invasion this year is the worst he's witnessed since the late 1970s, when Hopkinsville suffered a similar bird blitz. Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city 2013-02-19T20:59:12Z Keen to determine these differences were due to physiological changes, Dominoni collected blackbirds from both locations and placed them into light- and sound-proof enclosures. City Life Turns Blackbirds into Early Birds 2013-06-05T15:45:00.347Z The three-minute piece also features messages from listeners around the world along with the sound of the blackbird and skylark, commentary from the Cameroon election and the ubiquitous BBC pips. Albarn marks 90 years of the BBC 2012-11-14T01:13:53Z Young blackbirds found dead at a primary school in Cumbria suffered from alcohol poisoning, according to an investigation. Dead birds found to be 'drunk' 2012-11-03T04:15:29Z Something similar seems to be going on in blackbirds and song thrushes. Birds arrange eggs in their nests to better detect imposters 2013-05-08T22:45:05.467Z "The blackbirds are able to harbor this organism ... so it can be shed in their droppings and it becomes a problem, especially where they tend to roost in extremely high numbers," he said. Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city 2013-02-19T20:59:12Z The conference rooms are named after birds — @puffin, @kiwi, @blackbird and so on. Dick Costolo of Twitter, an Improv Master Writing Its Script 2012-10-06T15:03:09Z Now they all sat talking on the terrace in an evening light as thick as syrup; clouds of insects swarmed above the Japanese water features, swallows slipped close along the earth, a blackbird sang. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z From yon thorny bush don’t you hear the blackbird’s sweet notes? while the mellow bullfinch answers those notes from yonder sylvan grove.” The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z In the species they looked at, blackbirds and thrushes, it seems that individuals might actually pay attention to how their eggs are arranged in order to better spot an imposter. Birds arrange eggs in their nests to better detect imposters 2013-05-08T22:45:05.467Z It seemed like the song of hope, and rang in his ear, mingling with the notes of the blackbird, the thrush, and the wood-lark, and promising success and happiness. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Many blackbirds have copied our voices so that you wouldn't be able to tell us apart if you couldn't see us. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z A flock of blackbirds lit below us, covering the fallen stones like black hail. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z We are familiar with many differently coloured varieties of our cultivated flowers; and white blackbirds, and black leopards are not very uncommon objects. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z A blackbird was flying over those green stems waving in the water. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z Rock pigeons, Brahminy ducks, blackbirds and numerous other varieties of small birds came down to drink here and did not mind us at all. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Mr. Nightingale sang a little opening song and then began to talk to the blackbird. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Basque I. has the following form: Three sons go out to seek a white blackbird by which their father can be healed. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z It was a blackbird, and all listened to him with respect. Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z And I saw the red shoulders of the blackbird as he flew. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z "No such a thing on our lake after the blackbirds leave the marshes." The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z At the end of the supper, after the crows had had a feast, too, the fairy queen asked them if they wouldn't sing the old, old song about blackbirds being baked in a pie. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z He arrives at the house of the king who has the white blackbird, and is told to get a certain young woman from another king. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z A day after the snow melted, we saw our first butterfly and red-winged blackbird, sure signs that spring is near. Green Blog: A Season of Confounded Expectations 2012-03-21T19:16:33Z The grass was still again, and two blackbirds flew across it. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z For instance, at least one invasive species, the red-billed leiothrix of East Asia, appears to use its clamorous chatter to drown out the native European blackbird in Northern Italy. Is Silence Going Extinct? 2012-03-15T22:17:17Z "How the guests did laugh to hear the crows singing about blackbirds being baked in a pie—and stopping every minute to shout out, 'Not us, though, oh, no!'—and the fairy queen was delighted." Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z In Breton IV. we find again three sons of a king, who set forth to get the white blackbird and also the lady with locks of gold. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z The blackbirds gather, and wheel and fly, The swallows twitter a low "Goodbye!" The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Bobolinks, jays, bluebirds, chattering blackbirds and even crows added their voices to the odd combinations of melody. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z My pretty white blackbird will never have to fret her heart out in any imitation-gilt cage. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Such pigment agents in many birds are generally round or cigar-shaped, but these were especially narrow, like those of blackbirds. Feather Cells Tell of Microraptor?s Crowlike Sheen 2012-03-08T19:20:19Z It helps him procure the youth-giving blackbird and afterward the lady with the marvellous hair. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z When a blackbird flies before the dawn By dusk someone will die. Dot Earth Blog: Songs of this Fossil Age: A Coal Miner's Death Foretold 2012-02-29T13:58:02Z As she passed, she looked up and saw the blackbird crouching in the bottom of its cage. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z Before they leave, the old people make them a present of a blackbird which is quite blue; but when they have left the Land of Memory they find it has turned black. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Still their course could be traced by the snapping of dry sticks, the scramble of a horse on a steep place, or the scared notes of blackbirds, fleeing low among the bushes. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z From them he obtains the steed, and retraces his steps, eloping with the lady at the second king’s castle and at the first king’s carrying off the blackbird. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z And now and again one could hear among all the soprani a rich melodious alto who sang an old ballad—listen! that is the greatest artist in the whole forest; that is the blackbird! Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z In the branches above sat the blackbird singing, and Arasmon stopped and listened to its song, and thought he had never heard a bird sing so sweetly before. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z Directly we dropped anchor a sight almost indescribable met the eye of what appeared to be hundreds of large blackbirds in the water. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z And they are making the curtains for it now, red curtains with big blackbirds flying all over them. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z Woe to the blackbirds that strip the rowan-tree of its berries just when autumn visitors are expected! Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z There are paraqueets, parrots, singing canaries, alligators, bananas, bamboos, singing winds, warbling bluebirds, blackbirds that can render a tune, purples and blues and crimsons and browns, all poured out and mixed together without stint. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Outside the cottage hung a blackbird in a cage, with drooping wings and scanty plumage. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories 2012-02-26T03:00:15.647Z Through these square green apertures, I had often, when a boy, made war upon the blackbirds and sparrows, unseen by my tiny game. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z What was a blackbird pie, and why should a pie have curtains? Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z Crows and blackbirds are common, but there are very few birds of prey, which are far more numerous in Brazil. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The men whistled and sang as they worked, and blackbirds, bluebirds, and larks flew back and forth, singing and searching for bugs and worms, as well as for the shining kernels of wheat. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z For there the thrush would be calling to the blackbird with an infinite bustle and noise, and the fields of corn would be whispering to the fields of wheat. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z Some little time after, a fussy red-winged blackbird came bustling into the thicket, perhaps to hunt for drowsy night-moths asleep on the under sides of the twigs. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z And the blackbird curtains are to drape the booth. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z As the sun shone with intense heat, the birds were all life, twittering on the high trees, where the loquacious blackbirds flew about in companies. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Look, there's a thrush and there's a blackbird. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The blackbirds called one to the other, and a rosy light struck down the streets. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z They are sounding the alarm on the danger of mercury emissions to humans @Slowlovelife A red-winged blackbird takes flight in a grassy area of cattails near Lancaster, Pa. June 14, 2010. What The Birds Know 2012-01-24T16:31:08Z Beyond it, above the woods where in spring the fluting blackbird sings of love and the delights of a mossy nest in the sheltered vale, rises Dale Hill, with its old toll-house. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The blackbird and the robin sought their scanty food on the banks of the brooks. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Overhead there was a bustle of blackbirds and thrushes; a gardener sharpening his scythe in the rose garden made a little rasping sound. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The blackbird swings at the foamy crest of the haw, disturbed by a thousand delights, and notes too few to tell them. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The new study found dangerously high levels of mercury in several Northeastern bird species, including rusty blackbirds, saltmarsh sparrows and wood thrushes. Study Finds Mercury in More Northeastern Bird Species 2012-01-23T21:14:08Z The robin had built early and her brood had flown and left the empty nest; but two blackbirds were sitting in the hawthorn-hedge, and flew away with cries of indignation and distress. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z On the bank of the river there was a fine border of tall timber trees, in which the turtle-dove cooed, and flocks of blackbirds were flying about. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z There were two blackbirds Sat upon a hill, The one named Jack, The other named Jill. The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes 2012-01-15T03:00:17.137Z "Good-bye!" we heard her call cheerfully and tenderly like a blackbird. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They often fairly hum with the varied notes of the red-winged blackbird, the rusty grackle, and our American robin, while whistling plovers are seen upon the mud-spits, snapping up the choicest of the snails. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Below them the pink apple-blossom spread like a rosy cloud against the bluest of skies, and a blackbird in a neighbouring bush was trilling his loudest. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Between the hills, there are, sometimes, in the ravines, little thickets of oak, ash, negundo maple, elm, bird-cherry, and some others, in which many kinds of birds, particularly the starling, blackbird, &c., build their nests. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z She sat in her parlor at the bottom of the page, eating bread and honey, while the maid and the blackbird were at the top of the next page. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z I drank the fresh air, that sparkled with the sound of the blackbirds and thrushes whistling their strong bright notes. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Some cruel hand had slain the blackbird which was wont to delight the poor prisoner’s heart. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z I did not know when thou wast dead; A blackbird whistling overhead Thrilled through my brain; I would have fled, But dared not leave thee, Rosaline! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z He ate a huge breakfast, then climbed into an apple tree and whistled for half an hour: Miss Yard, sitting at the window, declared she had never heard the blackbirds sing so beautifully. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Flocks of red-winged blackbirds made the trees look gay, and filled the air with melody. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Hither, in his boyhood, he made an almost daily pilgrimage, but not to gather the violets and the buttercups which lined its banks, or to hunt for blackbirds' nests in the swamp below. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z Large numbers of migrating blackbirds roost in the community northeast of Little Rock. About 100 blackbirds perish in Ark. town, far less than total from fireworks carnage year ago 2012-01-01T23:29:03Z “I guess we could have an annual blackbird watch,” he said with a laugh. Dead blackbirds fall again in Ark. town where thousands fell from sky last year 2012-01-02T05:47:01Z The children whirl around in a ring, And laugh and sing, and dance and sing: But the blackbird whistles clear, O clear, "The Spring, the Spring!" The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z It builds its nest in trees, exactly like that of the blackbird and thrush; lays four blue eggs, but seldom brings more than three young ones. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z When he bought the place it consisted of several fields and a wood, where cows pastured, and the notes of thrushes, linnets, and blackbirds filled the air. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z BEEBE, Ark. — Authorities in a central Arkansas town say about 100 blackbirds died on New Year’s Eve after being spooked by fireworks, far less than the thousands that perished there a year ago. About 100 blackbirds perish in Ark. town, far less than total from fireworks carnage year ago 2012-01-01T23:29:03Z Police in Beebe said dozens of blackbirds had fallen dead, prompting officers to ban residents from shooting fireworks Saturday night. Dead blackbirds fall again in Ark. town where thousands fell from sky last year 2012-01-02T05:47:01Z Where have you been, South Wind, this May-day morning, With larks aloft, or skimming with the swallow, Or with blackbirds in a green, sun-glinted thicket? The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The song of a thrush, the whistle of a blackbird, would easily drown that. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z It was a big yellow-billed blackbird, that flew out with startled cry from a small Austrian pine tree. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Brian Duke said Sunday that officials asked people to stop setting off fireworks after blackbirds again started flying into objects and each other. About 100 blackbirds perish in Ark. town, far less than total from fireworks carnage year ago 2012-01-01T23:29:03Z There was a saucy rascal of a blackbird that used to run about on the lawn gathering food, quite close to the children. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z See how the flowers keep still because of it! hear how it trembles in the blackbird's song! The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The blackbird and thrush hide themselves in the hawthorn tree; only the robin still sings on the top rail of the old bridge. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z As a boy he would catch and tame the blackbirds, and these would fly about the cottage all day, and at night come and roost at his bed-head. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z Buzzards soared over the pines, and the song of our common thrushes and blackbirds rang through the woods as at home. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z When Shireen, Tabby, and the rest were there the blackbird used to come even closer, in order that he might nod his head and scold the cats. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z As he crossed the green sunlit lawn, a blackbird flew into the shrubbery with a shrill note of alarm. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z There was a blackbird came and perched half-way up a neighbouring spruce tree and began fluting. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The leaves crackled crisply under his tread, and hungry blackbirds shot out swiftly from the hollies, uttering alarmed cachinnations. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z High on my hedge of bush and tree A blackbird sings his song to me, And far above my lin�d book I hear the voice of wren and rook. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems 2011-11-27T03:00:13.943Z I went to my bath at 6 o'clock this morning, and had the Park all to the blackbirds and myself. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z He was smaller than a sparrow, but larger than a wren, and he sang so sweetly that neither lark nor nightingale nor blackbird, nay, nor siren even, was so grateful to the ear. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z So the blackbird and I piped away there till it got nearly dark. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Nor is it fastidious in its choice of food—leverets, young rabbits, mice, partridges, thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows, larks, pipits, and many others are equal favourites. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z He came back presently, hot and muddy, whistling like a blackbird. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z But after awhile he again went east, taking his pets with him, scattering grains of corn so that the blackbirds would follow him. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z He stuck all four rows of sharp bristles like tiny pins in the ground, and held on for his life, while the blackbird pulled hard for its breakfast. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The blackbirds and the mavises hardly trouble themselves to cease their song even when you walk close by the trees on which they are perched. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The kittens in the barley-mow, The setter's toothless puppies sprawling, The blackbird in the apple calling, All knew her spirit more than we, So delicate these maidens be In loving lovely helpless things. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Crow Man then caught a blackbird and poured oil of black magic on his tail feathers. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z And the mischievous orphan went & got the feet of some real crows and the eyes of real blackbirds and brought them to her. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z Poor Wiggle-Waggle parted in the middle, and the blackbird flew off with half of him. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z I could play now, and we spent such a joyful night, and dawn was breaking and the blackbirds up and fluting again long before the merry party broke up. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z In America the name Grackle has been applied to several species of the genera Scolecophagus and Quiscalus, though these are more commonly called in the United States and Canada “blackbirds,” and some of them “boat-tails.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z After several days the blackbird returned to Crow Man. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z The blackbird has to some extent the power of the mocking bird, of imitating the sounds it hears,—such as the chuckling of a hen, the song of the nightingale, the caw of the crow. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z An early blackbird saw him, and swooped down upon him. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Not long since, in the neighborhood of Rouen and in the valley of Monville, the blackbird was for some time proscribed. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The blackbird on her nest above, Below, the beetle tunnelling. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z He then went to Lame Bull and told all that he had learned through the blackbird. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z For I burn the midnight oil, and the early blackbird—the first of our choir to awake—has often saluted me on my way home. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z His head and half his body were already in his burrow, but the blackbird's beak closed on his tail. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z At first no blackbirds came near me or my place of business. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z We are accustomed to describe the blackbird's voice as flute-like, and the flute is one of the instruments which most nearly resemble the human voice. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z At the same time a blackbird flew quite near the hole, and said, ‘Mink Maiden, your father cries for you to come home.’ Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Apparently, however, this world of sunlight and green leaves and cool shadow was quite untenanted; there was no sound but that of the blackbird and the thrush; she wandered on without meeting any one. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Not until the rain and hail came on did the blackbirds cease to flute or the swallows to skim high overhead. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Once in a while our blackbirds get a little grain and the farmer condemns them and looks upon them only with a murderer's eye. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z Listening to these blackbird concerts, I have sometimes wondered whether or not they produced the same effect on others' ears as on mine, as of people talking to one another in high-pitched and beautiful tones. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z He sent the blackbird for the North Forces, and when they came in obedience to his order, he told them what they must do. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z A wandering blackbird, roused by the crackling of the flames, wished them good-evening; a light breeze, passing over the summits of the pines, awoke vague murmurs in the depths of the forest. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z And the blackbird’s voice seemed to sound more melodiously now; the thrush went farther away; only the wild pigeons continued to coo, coo, and the bees to hum, high, high up in the green beech-tree. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; When up came a blackbird, And snapt off her nose. Text books of art education, v. 2 of 7 Book II, Second Year 2011-09-23T02:00:21.277Z She stuck to it that it was a blackbird, and to prove that I was wrong assured me that there were no blackcaps there. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Behold your brothers turned to birds and made companions of snipes, woodpeckers, jays, owls, rooks, starlings, blackbirds, tom-tits, larks, kingfishers, wrens, and sparrows. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z There is no wind, nor any movement; one blackbird sings somewhere for a little while, then it ceases and there is no sound in the fields. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z —I think that upon further consideration C. J. A. will find his egg to be merely that of a blackbird. Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-13T02:00:32.783Z A passage opened before them, in the middle of which stood a tiny, wrinkled Jewish woman, who watched them with snapping, restless eyes, like those of a blackbird. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z I have described in another book certain blackbirds of genius I have encountered. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Neither it does; and no sooner is the vessel lying her course again, with her stem cleaving through the blue water, than Jack begins to sing, like a blackbird just let loose from a pie. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The blackbird in the apple-tree Was waking ere the day; But I was ready sooner than he, For I watched the night away. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z I sometimes see blackbirds, thrushes, and sparrows all tubbing at one time, and quite hilarious over it. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Other bird species, including various species of swallows and blackbirds, are gathering into large groups that reflect this year's production. Transition into fall still leaves plenty to do in the outdoors 2011-09-04T15:09:12Z Starlings, sparrows, and chaffinches were the most numerous, while the blackbird, thrush, robin, hedge-sparrow and wren were each represented by a pair. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z The primroses came out in the copses, and as soon as the blackbird and thrush saw them they started singing at once. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z In the obvious nests, among the bare boughs of ash and beech, the eggs of the blackbird were blue-green as the sky that March had bequeathed to April. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The blackbird has been talked of as “fluting in the grove.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The air is fragrant with the odor of flowers and we listen to the songs of the blackbirds and mocking birds. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z The image of this beautiful song is as distinct in my mind as that of the blackbird which I heard every day last summer from every green place. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z When it grew semi-dark he would sleep, and awake in the morning as fresh as a blackbird. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The blackbirds and the thrushes are still wild. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The mellow mavis tunes his lay, The blackbird swells his note, And little robin sweetly sings Above the woody grot.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Hill said he thinks he has seen him, and that my little friend looks like a blackbird. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z A lady at Worthing told me of her blackbirds breeding in her garden that they refused to be kept from the strawberries when she netted the ripening fruit. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z The breeding of blackbird, song thrush, and mistle thrush in Great Britain. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z But the blackbird flies now and then through the snow-clad shrubbery with sudden bickering screams that startle even the sparrows. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z You could ran the thrushes down, and catch them by hand, so lifeless were they; and I could show you the bushes any day where blackbirds dropped lifeless on their perches. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z God give him grace,” and picked his flute out of a bookshelf which was fastened above his bunk; sat down over the steam heater, and broke out like a blackbird. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There are two more common British songsters that produce much the same effect as the willow wren and blackbird; these are the swallow and pied wagtail. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Only, quite spontaneously and all of a sudden, the poor goldfinches set up a loud and lovely song; and the solitary blackbird gave a whistle. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z Thrushes, blackbirds, finches, sparrows, starlings—they all agree as well as if they had learned Watts’ hymns, and laid them all to heart. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The redwings were his favourite game, for it was possible to strike one down silently; whereas no sooner did he miss a spring at throstle or blackbird than the whole wood knew of the occurrence. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The weather began to be warm, or rather hot, and the birds, as thrushes and blackbirds, to sing as sweetly as those in England.' History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z "That blackbird," she corrected; "yes, it sings well." Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z There were numbers of goldfinches, a blackbird, some small thrushes, an ortolan, and two or three other kinds I could not identify; nay, even a brace of unhappy quail in a bottle-shaped basket. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z I've seen boys stone a blackbird, and watched them drown "A kitten ... it clawed at the reeds, and they pushed it down "Into the pool while it screamed. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z A score of blackbirds piped in Knockdane, and a corncrake rasped in the meadow. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z A thrush's call Blends with a blackbird's madrigal. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z As they went on down the lane the blackbirds every now and then sprang from the bushes with a loud cry; the song-thrushes, less wild, sat on the spray till they came close. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z What ruffling of feathers and starting of eyeballs in agony there had been, while the poor blind decoy, finch or blackbird, sang, sang on in his cage on the central grass-plot! Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z During the frost a blackbird had roosted in a corner of the hut under the rafters, sparrows too had sought its shelter, and wrens and blue-tits had crept into the crevices of the eaves. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The fluting of the blackbirds in Knockdane only seemed the more mellow for the rain, and skylarks mounted up in rapturous jubilee. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z A runnel near is singing A song of liquid glee, A saucy, joyous blackbird Tilts bubbling notes at me. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z Rich flute-like notes of music came from the copse hard by—it was the blackbird. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z About Christmas-time, half in joke and half in earnest, a small party often agree to shoot as many blackbirds as they can, if possible to make up the traditional twenty-four for a pie. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z At twenty he could hit an object the size of a sparrow; at twenty-five of a blackbird, after twenty-five he might miss his straw hat. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z A broody blackbird 'chinked' anxiously, and a pigeon wheeled aside with a 'swoof.' Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The silver rain Will warmly fall, The woods will gain The blackbird's call. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z The blackbird sings in the scorching sun at noonday, when the other songbirds are silent. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The blackbird pie is, of course, really an occasion for a social gathering, at which cards and music are forthcoming. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He kicked up his heels, and a startled blackbird flew out of a bramble bush and across the water. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The old blackbird was croaking to her brood, beseeching them to use their wings to escape, but they only gaped foolishly for more worms. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Like the blackbird's notes in the early hours Which fall like a peal of silver flowers, Joy rings his bells in my waiting ears, And Sorrow departs to his silent meres. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z But the blackbird, king of hedgerows— Hedgerows to my memory dear— By the brook, where rush and sedge grows, Sang his liquid love-notes clear. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Though blackbirds abound in every hedge, it is by no means an easy task to get the required number just when wanted. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The shadows had now deepened, and there were two thrushes and a blackbird out in the grass. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The bats hawked to and fro, and a blackbird 'chink-chinked' in notes like the dripping of water. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Then a clearer voice replies To his echo ere it dies, And the blackbirds' voices mingle With th' Eistedfodd in the dingle. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z She was rather silent as a rule, though she could sing like a blackbird when no one was about. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z The other is a warning, and will very often set two or three other blackbirds calling in the same way, whose existence till then was unsuspected. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Then a sea blackbird came, a morsel nice, And disappear'd, devoured in a trice. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The blackbirds were arguing together loudly as they settled down in the laurels for the night; nevertheless through all the din Grimalkin detected a distant scurry and patter of feet. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Out of the distant fields come, sweet and faint, the call of the meadowlark and the gurgle of the blackbirds that throng the brookside elms. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Once upon a time he caught a blackbird and took it home. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z I own I love the blackbird, and never weary of observing him. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The next kind is like a blackbird in size, and they call them trichades. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Sometimes as a cloud came over the moon, a blackbird 'spinked' agonizedly, and then all at once the whole hillside seemed to spring into rushing whirring life as every bird within earshot dashed out. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Our New England fathers had as kindly a feeling for this blithe comer to their stumpy meadows, though they gave him the uncouth and malodorous name of skunk blackbird. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z There is also a Bushman myth according to which certain blackbirds have white breasts, because some women once tied pieces of white fat round their necks.* Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z By the same caravan route the blackbirds come to the garden; they, however, are not such travelling birds as the finches. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Antiphanes also reckons starlings among the eatable birds, numerating them in the following list—"Honey, partridges, pigeons, ducks, geese, starlings, jays, rooks, blackbirds, quails, and pullets." The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Rosalind, by an irresistible impulse of gaiety, joined her voice to those of the blackbirds that carolled near her, till she was stopped by Helen's exclaiming, "Rosalind, I feel courage for anything this morning!" The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z But there are more woful days when the sun and the sky are again opened to him, and he breathes the warm air of spring, hears the blackbirds sing and the bittern boom. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Down to where I live, the blackbirds and robins are thick as spatter. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z The blackbird comes almost as often to the lawn, but it is in a different way. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z B. Go not to more expense than a neat table; Buy a rough-footed hare; some ducklings too, As many as you like; thrushes, and blackbirds, And other small birds; there are many wild sorts. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z There were two blackbirds There were two blackbirds Sitting on a hill, The one named Jack, The other named Jill; Fly away, Jack! National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z A flock of belated blackbirds twittering in an oak tree was enough to make him get the bit in his teeth and run a quarter of a mile. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z Why don't all the blackbirds go into one flock, Venison?" said I. "There 'tis! there 'tis!" replied Venison; "if 'twas all chance, they would. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z In this way the blackbird acts as a general sentinel. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Near the ivy they found a rowan berry, and then went home taking the three things with them,—the blackbird's leg, the ivy leaf, and the rowan berry. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z Even the iris of the eye is sometimes more brightly coloured in the male than in the female; and this is frequently the case with the beak, for instance, in our common blackbird. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z They were Justice and Absalom, come with Sandhelo and the cart to take me home, or rather what was left of me after the blackbirds had picked me to pieces. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z The blackbirds appeared first, and might be seen flying about from tree to tree, and fence to fence, near by the upturned furrows that the ploughman had left behind him. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z |
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