Eksempler på blackbird

• In both panels the line indicated by squares corresponds to parameters found in humans, whereas the three additional lines correspond to possible values of parameters for blackbirds.

• I think the argument that small boys will be made criminals if they take a blackbird's egg or a thrush's egg is really a bogey.

• Blackbirds, thrushes, greenfinches, owls, hawks and falcons are particularly mentioned as birds affected.

• I noticed a blackbird's nest in the undercarriage.

• To permit the taking of the eggs of blackbirds, thrushes and a few other species will not do a great deal of damage.

• The maximum fine is £5 for each egg—say £20 for a blackbird's nest and £40 for a water hen's nest—and a little boy is made a criminal.

• Nothing could be commoner than a blackbird, a thrush or a chaffinch, depending on where you live.

• The number of birds reported as taken are: blackbird 59, skylark 278, black-headed gull 1, song thrush 2, redwing 8 and fieldfare 10.

• I have never seen blackbirds bred in captivity, although they probably are from time to time, but they certainly are not self-sustaining.

• If we are to protect the sheld-duck, what about the swans, sparrows, thrushes, blackbirds and skylarks?

• It would be rather dreadful if every small boy who took a thrush's or blackbird's egg could be hauled before the police court and fined.

• The ornithologists tell me that even the bird song of the blackbird is to mark out his territory.

• Is he further aware that blackbirds and thrushes are mainly beneficial to agriculture?

• One is reminded of the five and twenty blackbirds, who sang before the king.

• Had she listened this morning, she would have heard a yodelling blackbird.