moinsdewatt wrote:Finally the blackbird also loves bigger than the earthworms?
Ca to the rare, but I found another observation:
Re: Merle and Lizard
Post by Galiser »17 May 2014, 19: 15
I witnessed in my garden the attack of a blackbird on a lizard that he swallowed with a certain ease
I will add for the anecdote that it took about ten minutes to swallow it because he had to spit it a first time because too big.
He then cut it with beaks and swallowed the pieces soon enough.
It was last summer.
http://www.forum.serpentsdefrance.fr/vi ... f=5&t=3836The Blackbird diet is omnivorous. They feed on a wide variety of insect species, worms and various other small animals and they also consume fruits and sometimes seeds.
Blackbirds mainly seek their prey ashore. They run, jump, jog and lean their heads to the ground. They hunted mainly at sight but also sometimes use their hearing. They are important consumers of earthworms that they catch while searching the humus. They could make them emerge from their galleries by tapping the ground before extirpating them. They also scrape the litter of the decaying leaves in a noisy and demonstrative way, making the leaves fly in search of all kinds of invertebrates: insects as larvae as imagos, spiders, Myriapodes, slugs, small snails13 ... Exceptionally, they feed on small vertebrates such as tadpoles, small adult amphibians or lizards. Even if they are mainly ground hunters, blackbirds do not hesitate to explore the trees and bushes to collect the insects laid on them, especially the caterpillars.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_noir