Many birds have been named "black bird" as a
result of their predominantly black colouration. Most of these birds are
unrelated to each other and certainly not related to the Common blackbird found
throughout Europe and West-Asia. Originally a shy forest dweller these
songbirds have become more widespread in the urban environment from the 1950s
onwards as parks and large gardens started to mature. Like rabbits, blackbirds
are especially common in modernist (Corbusian) housing estates with apartment
blocks set amongst parkland and greenery.
Only the males deserve the name black birds, the
females are a duller dark brown. They can be seen foraging for worms, snails
and insects in the undergrowth, under hedges and on lawns and other short
grassland. They like to make nests in hedges, dense bushes or ivy. Sometimes a
young chick falls out and is fed on the ground by the parents until it can fly.
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