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[den]

The newest peewee was a cat victim. Not long after I got her, she started vomiting blood. I euthanased her.

And I was handed a starling chick and a blackbird chick. I can't keep feral birds so I euthanased them, too.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Our blackbirds are English imports, but they've been here so long (over 100 years) that the male's song is changing. A blackbird from Australia wouldn't get any mates in the UK because the females wouldn't recognize his call.

Our blackbirds have an accent!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

They probably curse, too.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you've had to put down three birds in one day.

But as to accents, it doesn't take thousands of miles seperation to cause problems, researchers have found major "accents" within England for many bird species. IThe research started at least ten years ago looking at blackbirds, and they found that even over the distance between London and Birmingham ( a couple of hundred miles), there were some very noticeable changes in calls...

... and yes that does mean there really are Cockney Sparrows. :)