🐾 Eurasian Blackbird

Turdus merula · wildlife atlas entry

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The common blackbird ( Turdus merula ) is a species of true thrush. It is also called Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds), or simply blackbird where this does not lead to confusion with a similar-looking local species. It breeds in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to Australia and New Zealand. It has a number of subspecies across its large range; a few of the... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Eurasian Blackbird — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Luiz Lapa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Record card

Scientific name	Turdus merula
Rank	species
Community observations	268,339 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Passeriformes › family Turdidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Quimperle, Liskeard, England, GB
(c) Nick Butcher, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Gleeson Wetlands, Clare SA 5453, Australia
(c) clairepage, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Gleeson Wetlands, Clare SA 5453, Australia
(c) clairepage, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Auckland, Auckland, NZ
(c) Andrew Matheson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · 81043 Capua CE, Italia
(c) Emanuele Cianciulli Vuono, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Berlin, Berlin, DE
(c) janusz98, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Eurasian Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Waterloo Road opposite Chilton St James School, Hutt Central, Lower Hutt 5010, New Zealand
(c) sjlambert, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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