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Turdus merula merula
This beautiful male has "glossy black plumage, blackish-brown legs, a yellow eye-ring and an orange-yellow bill." (Wiki) The Eurasian Blackbird is an introduced and now naturalised species. Check out the female in this spotting: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19...
Chilling on the branch of this tree on the edge of the drop down to the creek in the Botanic Gardens.
A great story from a couple of years ago: https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/...
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