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i am quite in love with blackbirds so it distresses me, i love their songs, i love their cheeky behaviour, and their cheeky postures and all the variety of different ways they communicate, and maybe my love of this bird even infected my coworkers at my job where my boss registers domain names related to blackbirds and starts dreaming up plans to make a relay-and-client bundle with this little mischievous avian as its mascot
i'm talking about Turdus Merula, the common eurasian blackbird i'm a big fan of corvids, my favourite overall is the jackdaw, but i find the machinegun sound of magpies amusing and their big long tails and the way they move it quite comical... rooks, well, they strut around in a funny way, and that's kind a cute, and ravens, well, their big curved long beaks and their tool using is fun, and crows, i've seen some very interesting things with those guys in large numbers in amsterdam parks, singing some very strange music but lil turdus is my favourite image their songs are so varied and witty in their construction, and the way that they call and respond to each other across the forest, and when they are foraging, the funny noises they make to warn their mate about kitties or humans incoming they are just such little wild spirits that i smile every time i hear them sing
i hope that you have them where you live, they have spread across the world a bit, they can be found in some parts of USA and i think even in australia they got to, and the Beatles made a famous song about them and really, when you one day start to notice them around you, yeah, it's magic, really is