Common Blackbird, Adelaide Zoo

Common Blackbird (male), Adelaide Zoo

Despite having Common Blackbirds in our garden I have found them to be hard to get good photographs of them.  This is probably because we have a fairly open garden with only a few bushes where they can hide or skulk around. I was therefore quite pleased to get this shot of a male blackbird on a recent visit to Adelaide Zoo. He was in one of the animal enclosures, scratching around in the leaf and bark litter under a tree.

Further reading:

• The birds of Adelaide Zoo
• Giant Pandas, Adelaide Zoo
• Giraffes at Monarto Zoo, South Australia
• Do Blackbirds swoop? Dealing with aggressive birds.