 Blackbird Songs Meanings
A male blackbird, with young nearby, has recently befriended us in our garden and has made us curious as to what his various calls mean. He will come to within a foot of my feet if I am sitting quietly and he wants food. He is often waiting near the back door in the morning.
He has a soft, quiet but fairly fast choog....choog...choog which seems to mean "feed me" but is documented on British Garden Birds website as a warning call. When he flies off with food for his young he emits a raucous rattle like an alarm call but it seems out of context here. He also sometimes holds a quiet single note call for 1 or 2 seconds, I particularly wonder what this means as he seems to go into a trance when he does it !
How much do we humans really understand bird language ? Can anyone help ?
This is my first post so I hope I have the forum technicalities and etiquette correct ! |