Do black birds listen for food or is something else happening?

Supposedly American Robins —also a Turdus — use both sight and hearing when foraging on a lawn for earthworms and other prey. I haven’t found the source study for that finding.

Added: I see @octobertraveler addressed that above.

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Good idea Stewart - doing it now.

No - I can’t see how to make this change:(

However - I will make the comment that the European Blackbird is a species of true thrush. It is also called the Eurasian blackbird.

If editing your title didn’t work, I expect you could still edit your first comment. Also, I’m not sure there might not be a time delay between entering the change and it showing up in this dialogue.

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