Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 3 species of blackbird, spread across 2 families (Cinclidae, Turdidae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 3.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 53 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Like the other dippers, it belongs to the only group of passerines in the world that dives and walks along the river bed: it grips the stones with its claws and uses the current over its angled back to hold itself down instead of floating up.
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It has a transparent third eyelid that it uses as diving goggles, nostrils with a flap that closes underwater, and a preen gland ten times larger than that of a land bird to waterproof its plumage.
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Its presence on a stretch of river is used as an official indicator of water quality in several European countries.
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It is told apart from the common blackbird by a bold white bib.
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The juniper woods of south-eastern Spain and the Sierra Nevada are an essential wintering ground for the European population: thousands of ring ouzels depend every winter on the juniper berry crop of those sierras.
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It is far shyer than the common blackbird: it lives on open mountain, flies off at a great distance and is detected more by its dry, repeated alarm call than by direct sighting.
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The colour of the male's bill reflects how well he has fed, and females use it to choose a mate.
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Only the males are entirely black; females are brown.
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