A female blackbird has spent many hours attacking its own reflection in the wing mirror of cars in the Wanganui Chronicle car park this spring. Wanganui ecologist Peter Frost said the bird was ...

The male tri­colored blackbird has a thinner, more pointed bill, a white epaulet border, colder gray-buff upperpart markings in winter, and a different voice. Voice. Call: chuk.

So, females are available all summer and genetic studies of paternity revealed that approximately one blackbird in four was the product of an extra-pair fertilization, accomplished either by a male on ...

It comes after birdwatcher Dr Mya-Rose Craig, 19, questioned why the female birds were featured in smaller insets next to the larger pictures of male birds and if it was a result of sexism.