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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A Blackbird sits on the snow |
| Image notes: |
This picture was taken in April when the birds would be nesting. |
| Species in Image: |
Blackbird |
| Date: |
1985 |
| Area: |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc01845 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Blackbird |
| Latin Name |
Turdus merula |
| Latin Group Name |
Passeriformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Turdidae |
| Common Family Name |
Chats and Thrushes |
| Description |
Common breeding resident. It is only since the 1870s that they have colonised Shetland. On some of the outer islands such as Out Skerries, breeding was first recorded about 1950. |
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