Translation of merel in Dutch–English dictionary
(Translation of merel from the PASSWORD Dutch–English Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples in english of blackbird
blackbird
One is reminded of the five and twenty blackbirds, who sang before the king.
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Blackbirds, thrushes, greenfinches, owls, hawks and falcons are particularly mentioned as birds affected.
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The red-winged blackbird aggressively defends its territory from other animals.
Nothing could be commoner than a blackbird, a thrush or a chaffinch, depending on where you live.
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The ornithologists tell me that even the bird song of the blackbird is to mark out his territory.
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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.
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I can understand the farmer not liking creatures that feed on his crops, but could we not spare the blackbird, the thrush, the fieldfare, the wren and the nightingale?
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The number of birds reported as taken are: blackbird 59, skylark 278, black-headed gull 1, song thrush 2, redwing 8 and fieldfare 10.
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