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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds, especially blackbirds, like using the fibres for building nests.
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But is it a dialogue, or does each blackbird whistle for itself and not for the other?
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Darwin noticed that some monogamous birds have very colorful males: mallards, for example, and blackbirds.
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Species such as blackbirds and sparrows have three pointing forwards and one pointing back.
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The evil spirits ascended from her mouth as a flock of blackbirds.
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There were blackbirds and thrushes and skylarks and ravens and starlings and jays and magpies and many kinds of small finches.
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When a stuffed owl was presented to experienced blackbirds living in aviaries, they started mobbing the mounted bird.