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English Common Blackbird
Scientific (Turdus merula)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Turdidae
Family (English) Thrushes
Other name(s) Eurasian Blackbird
Regions PAL, OR
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Czech Republic,Portugal,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Bangladesh,Croatia,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Ukraine,Romania,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Belgium,Monaco,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Syria,Hungary,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Macao,Sri Lanka,China,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Iceland,Slovakia,Tajikistan,Poland,Moldova,Spain,Egypt,Australia,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Italy,Bhutan,New Zealand,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Andorra,Albania,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
merula Europe (except se)
azorensis Azores (all main is., nw Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
cabrerae Madeira and Porto Santo (Madeira group) and w, c Canary Is. (nc to c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
mauritanicus nw Africa
aterrimus se Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus and n Iran
syriacus islands of s Greece, s Turkey to s Iran, n Iraq and Egypt
intermedius mountains of c Asia to n Afghanistan
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
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German Amsel
French Merle noir
Chinese 欧乌鸫
Japanese ニシクロウタドリ
Russian Чёрный дрозд
Spanish Mirlo común
Portuguese melro-preto
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)