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Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

Western European Blackbird (Turdus merula ssp. merula)

Date

August 6, 2019 12:15 PM NZST

Description

Male arrived and dug for several minutes with his beak in muddy recently disturbed ground
He left and shortly after a female arrived and pecked in the same area, then went and stood under a (mostly unripe) fruit-laden Solanum opacum, picking berries.

Then she left and a male blackbird - presumed the same one - returned.

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