Blackie, Merl(e), Lintoo | |
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An adult male | |
Conservation status
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Faimily: | Turdidae |
Genus: | Turdus |
Binomial name | |
Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758
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Approximate scowth gien in grey |
The blackie (Turdus merula), is ae passerine in the throstle faimly Turdidae.[2] It is whiles kent as “merl(e)” or “lintoo”. It haes muckle scowth aa athort Europe, Aisie, a North Africae an wis brocht intae Austrailie and New Zealand. It haes a hantle o subspecies. Gin the blackie is ayebidin, pairt-vaigin, or fu-vaigin is lippent tae the latitude it bides at.
The adult male is bleck, wi a yellae/orange neb. The young an females are broun, an mair dernt nor the males. Blackies are fouthie and aft-fand in gairdens aa ower Europe and Aisie, South of the Arctic Circle. Blackies, for common, live tae be 2.4 year auld, but some hae been kent tae mak 20 year or mair.[3]
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