blackbird
black·bird (-bʉrd′)
noun
- any of various passerine birds (family Icteridae) of the New World, the males having almost entirely black plumage, as the red-winged blackbird or the grackle
- a common European thrush (Turdus merula)
blackbird
n.
Types of blackbirds include: (purple) grackle, (jack)daw, English thrush, red-winged blackbird, yellow-winged blackbird, rusty blackbird, yellow-headed blackbird, Brewer's blackbird;
Possessives
- nest: This year, I could not find a blackbird's nest in my garden.
Converse of object
- hear: How long does it actually take to hear the blackbird sing or feel the sunlight?
- see: Researchers were surprised to see even Blackbirds, normally strict ground feeders, tucking in.
- include: A vast array of birds including blackbirds, greenfinches, thrushes, yellowhammers, to name just a few will nest in these sites.
- catch: Other Recoveries of Note A Blackbird caught at Heysham in March 2003 had been ringed the previous October in Rogaland, Norway.
- find: This year, I could not find a blackbird 's nest in my garden.
- have: Both of these are very mellow singers and we are particularly glad to have a good singing blackbird again.
Adjective modifier
- red-winged: There was a huge roost of Red-winged Blackbirds here.
- yellow-headed: A few waders were seen as well as Lazuli Buntings and a couple of Yellow-headed Blackbirds.
- sr-71: Hint: Whiskey Corridor: Second SR-71: There is a second SR-71 Blackbird on this mission.
- Jamaican: On previous visits we have also seen both Crested Quail-dove and Jamaican Blackbird relatively easily here.
- female: A female blackbird bounces around in the puddle of water on the paving slabs by the fountain.
- male: The male blackbirds are still fighting along their invisible boundary which runs roughly down the center of our garden.
Modifies a noun
- singing: Nearby I see a large blackbird singing in a dead tree.
- song: Compare this sound with the end phrase of the blackbird song 2 below.
- Hollin: Blackbird Hollins explores what these and modern pagan beliefs tell us about the tree.
- nest: The research team studied 6,600 song thrush and blackbird nests across Britain.
Noun used with modifier
- mountain: A rarer bird of sc r ee slopes is the Ring Ouzel, which is a sort of mountain blackbird.
- Mrs: Could you please, Mrs Blackbird, stop your infants from making such a din!
Morning has broken Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word!
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling or just after.
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