Common Blackbird Gallery

Birds, Ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus)

Vintage engraving of The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) is a European member of the thrush family, Turdidae. It is the mountain equivalent of the closely related common blackbird, and breeds in gullies, rocky areas or scree slopes. Familiar Wild Birds by Swaysland, Walter

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Natural History, Birds, ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus)

Vintage engraving from History of British Birds, by Francis Orpen Morris. The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) is a European member of the thrush family, Turdidae. It is the mountain equivalent of the closely related common blackbird, and breeds in gullies, rocky areas or scree slopes

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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

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