"blackbirds" was Lyrebird imitating ... Digest Number 4395

Subject:	"blackbirds" was Lyrebird imitating ... Digest Number 4395
From:	"David Kuhn" dkuhn012001
Date:	Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:28 pm ((PDT))

Mike, to further shed light on the common nomenclature, "blackbirds" in the=
 Americas refers to members of family Icteridae, including Red-wings, Yello=
w-headed, tri-colored, etc.; In Eurasia the term "Blackbird" refers to a me=
mber of the family Turdidae or true thrushes, like the American Robin, Turd=
us migratorius, not to be confused with what's called the English or Europe=
an Robin, a member of family Muscicapidae or Old World Flycatchers, and so =
on......

Aloha,
David

--- In  "John Tudor" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Michael Dalton <mdaltonarielle@>=
 wrote:
> >
> > Is a "blackbird" in Australia the same species we have here in the stat=
es?
> > =A0
> >
> Blackbird on Birdpedia Australia
>
> http://www.birdpedia.com/au/bi.dll/bipu02?m=3D006&id505=3DM000006846
>
> http://www.birdpedia.com/au/bi.dll/bipu06?m=3D001_01&id505=3DM000006846&i=
d528=3DJpg
>

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