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

Blackbird -Turdus merula-, male, foraging for food in the snow, Untergroningen, Abtsgmuend, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) female with feed at nest, Lower Saxony, Germany

© Folkert Christoffers / BIA / NIS

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