A young Blackbird can look quite like a Song Thrush, but a Song Thrush
is always a much lighter brown on the back - colour of dry earth
compared to the wet-earth colour of female and immature Blackbirds. In
a young Blackbird the breast is usually mottled, but in a young Song
Thrush the breast is white with the typical spots. It's not surprising
to get them confused - after all Common Blackbirds are typical members
of the Thrush family.
Back in the days before droughts and snail killer finished the Song
Thrushes, I used to have both species in my garden.
Anthea Fleming
On 17/01/2017 6:08 PM, Bill Stent wrote:
> I'm not totally sure of this one, but there was what was either a
> juvenile Blackbird or a Song Thrush in Treasury Gradens this
> afternoon, up near the vehicle entrance to the government precinct.
> The light crescent around the face was clear, but I'm not sure precisely.
>
> Anyone else there?
>
> Bill
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