Blackbird switches to quiet song while hunting for food

Common Blackbird (Turdus merula; Svarttrost; Merle noir) sings loudly from a tree, drops to the ground to poke for grub, then switches to a barely audible twittering song, as if singing to itself. This musical twitter is a variant of the so-called “quiet song“. From the island of Sotra west of Bergen, Norway in early spring. Background songs are Great Tit, European Robin, and Greenfinch. Birds of Norway west coast. MP4 Welcome to Birding Visions () - sharing the sublime beauty