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Baby/Female Blackbird

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  • 07-06-2014 2:24pm
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    LB6
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    I'm hoping someone can put forward some kind of response to this.
    There is either a young BB or maybe a young f BB in my back garden. Every day she is constantly chirping. Not the regular song, but the alarm one. She stands on the same tree bouncing from branch to branch. I got close to her today and it looks like she's got a worm hanging from the end of her beak. It's been like that ages now. It seems to be closed tight at the tip. You can see a gap at the back of the beak that allows her to breath and chirp. It sounds so distressing. She's calling all day long. Is there anything that I can do? :confused:


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    Cork boy 55
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    Beak brown = baby , yellow= adult , i guess it is adult calling to new baby after leaving nest , and the baby is gone missing


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    LB6
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    thank you - i'll check her tomorrow. shes gone for the night now. It's just worrying me that her beak is shut at the front.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Only male blackbirds have a bright yellow beak. Female's beak is a yellowish brown. The female is told from a juvenile by her more uniform brown plumage compared to a mottled juvenile.

    Is this bird in the same position for hours on end?


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    Cork boy 55
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    Declan White Moth wrote: »
    Only male blackbirds have a bright yellow beak. Female's beak is a yellowish brown. The female is told from a juvenile by her more uniform brown plumage compared to a mottled juvenile.

    Is this bird in the same position for hours on end?



    <Personal abuse edited out>


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    There are both yellow....

    Relax, I was just pointing out how different the yellow beaks are between male and female. Indeed it is more accurate to say the male's is orange-yellow and the female's brownish- yellow.

    OP, is this bird still in the same place this morning?


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    Kess73
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    Mod Post: Personal abuse is not tolerated in this forum. One week ban from the forum for Cork Boy55


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    LB6
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    Hi

    She always comes back in the evenings to the same branch. She's here again now, and she'll continue to call incessantly for hours again.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    If she comes and goes and just has a routine of calling from that branch in the evenings, I wouldn't be at all concerned.


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