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Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird

Turdus [merula or mandarinus] (= Turdus merula) Linnaeus, C 1758




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Classification
Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Turdidae
Genus:
   Turdus
Scientific:
  Turdus merula

Original description

Citation:
  Linnaeus, C 1758

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.170

Protonym:
  Turdus Merula

Type locality:
  in Europae sylvis; restricted to Sweden by Hartert, 1910, Vog. pal. Fauna, 1, p. 665.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/189/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  929A4ECEA453DACD

Avibase ID:
  avibase-929A4ECE

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/929A4ECE

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 179757

Geographic range:

  • Turdus merula merula: western Europe; introduced to southeastern Australia including Tasmania, and Norfolk and Lord Howe islands
  • Turdus merula cabrerae: Madeira and western Canary Islands
  • Turdus merula aterrimus: southeastern Europe to Crete, Rhodes, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and northern Iran
  • Turdus merula syriacus: southern Türkiye to Syria, northern Iraq, and southern Iran
  • Turdus merula azorensis: Azores
  • Turdus merula mauritanicus: North Africa (Morocco to Tunisia)
  • Turdus mandarinus mandarinus: breeds eastern China (from southern Gansu and southern Shaanxi southward through eastern Sichuan to western Yunnan, eastward to Hebei and Guangdong); partially migratory, wintering to Hainan and northern Indochina
  • Turdus mandarinus sowerbyi: east-central China (central Sichuan); resident?
  • Turdus mandarinus intermedius: central Asia to northeastern Afghanistan, Pamirs, and Xinjiang; winters to southern Iraq
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Source: Clements checklist
English:
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird
French:
Merle noir ou M. de Chine

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird ( Turdus [merula or mandarinus])
British Ornithologists' Union Checklist (7th edition):
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula)
British Ornithologists' Union Checklist (7th edition, incl. Jan 2009 suppl.):
Blackbird ( Turdus merula)
Christidis and Boles (2008): Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula)
Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions):
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions):
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions):
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions):
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
eBird version 1.50:
Eurasian Blackbird (Eurasian) ( Turdus merula [merula Group]) [version 1]
eBird version 1.52:
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
eBird version 1.53:
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
eBird version 1.54:
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
eBird version 1.55:
Eurasian Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16):
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015):
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.6:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.7:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1:
Common Blackbird ( Turdus merula) [version 1]
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
Turdus merula [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Turdus [merula, mandarinus, simillimus or maximus]

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Other synonyms

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Arabic: الشحرور
Asturian: Ñerbatu
Azerbaijani: Qara qaratoyuğu
Belarusian: Чорны дрозд
Bulgarian: Кос
Bengali: পাতি কালিদামা
Breton: Ar voualc'h du
Catalan: Merla, merla comuna
Catalan (Balears): Mèrlera
Czech: Kos cerný, Kos černý
Welsh: Mwyalchen
Danish: Solsort
German: Amsel
Greek: (Κοινός) Κότσυφας, Μαυρόπουλλος
Greek (Cypriot): Μαυρόπουλλος
English: Blackbird, Common Blackbird, Eurasian Blackbird, Eurasian Blackbird (Eurasian), Eurasian or Chinese Blackbird
Esperanto: merlo
Spanish: Mirlo Común
Estonian: Musträstas
Basque: Zozo arrunta
Finnish: mustarastas
Faroese: kvørkveggja
French: Merle noir, Merle noir ou M. de Chine
Frisian: swarte lyster
Irish: Lon Dubh
Gaelic: Lon-Dubh
Galician: Merlo
Hebrew: שחרור
Croatian: Kos
Hungarian: Fekete rigó
Armenian: Սև Կեռնեխ
Icelandic: Svartþröstur
Italian: Merlo
Japanese (romaji): kuro uta-dori, kuroutadori, Kuro-utadori
Japanese: クロウタドリ
Japanese (Kanji): 黒歌鳥
Georgian: შაშვი
Kazakh: Қара сайрақ
Kazakh (Transliteration): qara sayraq
Korean: 대륙검은지빠귀
Cornish: Molgh dhu
Scientific: Turdus [merula or mandarinus], Turdus merula, Turdus merula [merula Group], Turdus merula merula
Luxembourgish: Märel
Lithuanian: Juodasis strazdas
Latvian: Melnais meža strazds
Macedonian: Ќос
Malayalam: കരിങ്കിളി
Mongolian: Хар хөөндэй
Mongolian (Transliteration): khar khööndei
Maltese: Malvizz Iswed
Dutch: Merel
Norwegian: Svarttrost
Polish: kos
Pinyin: wū-dōng
Portuguese: Melro-preto
Romansh: Merlotscha
Romanian: Mierlă
Russian: Черный дрозд, Чёрный дрозд
Northern Sami: Cáhppesrásttis
Slovak: drozd čierny
Slovenian: Kos
Albanian: Mëllënja
Serbian: kos
Swedish: Koltrast
Thai: นกเดินดงสีดำ
Turkmen: karatavuk
Turkish: Karatavuk, Қара сайрақ
Ukrainian: Дрізд чорний
Chinese: 乌鸫
Chinese (Traditional): 烏鶇

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