Common Blackbird Gallery

Sing a Song of Sixpence - nursery rhyme

A Victorian engraving of a scene from the nursery rhyme a??Sing a Song of Sixpencea??, showing the four-and-twenty blackbirds singing to the King upon the opening of the pie. He and the Queen appear slightly surprised while the woman to his left looks aghast. From a??The Childa??s Own Magazinea??, published in London by The Sunday School Union in 1892 with illustrations by various artists

© Linda Steward

Common blackbird, Turdus merula

Common blackbird, Turdus merula. . Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

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Blackbird (Turdus merula), male singing whilst perched in Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree

Blackbird (Turdus merula), male singing whilst perched in Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree, near Bath, England, UK. May

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