Name that bird...

• Guest 657

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  3 July 2011     16:48113025
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  Ok one for all the clever bird people on Doverforum, any clues as to what this little guy I came across yesterday could be? Thanks.
  

  
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• Guest 700

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  3 July 2011     17:12113026
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  I would guess it is a young male blackbird, not yet got all its black feathers ??
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• Bern

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  3 July 2011     18:11113027
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  looks a bit thrushy to me......? Sadly there are many fewer thrushes around now than there used to be.
• Guest 696

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  3 July 2011     20:08113036
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  It looks odd, has possibly been rejected by the colony it came from for wearing the wrong feathers
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• Jan Higgins

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  3 July 2011     20:23113040
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  I agree with Kath,a young blackbird
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• Guest 645

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  4 July 2011     07:28113050
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  A Swan in disguise.?
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  30 June 2014     15:05268796
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  Just had this sent in, no doubt one of our experts will know what it is.
  
  
  

  
• howard mcsweeney1

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  30 June 2014     17:49268807
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  From a different angle.
  
  
  

  
• Guest 767

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  1 July 2014     11:36268832
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  The first is a young blackbird, if it looks a bit like a thrush it is because it is a thursh! Only we Brits call them blackbirds, others call them blackthrush or european thrush. Pause while I look up bird 2................Back again! My money is that no2 is a garden warbler, dull to look at but a treat to listen to!
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• Guest 698

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  1 July 2014     16:38268852
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  We find our local young blackbirds turn gradually black from the tail upwards. Hard to identify them as either blackbirds or thrushes unless you know the individuals.
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• Brian Dixon

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  1 July 2014     17:46268854
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  no its a tweety pie bird.