Funny looking bird in my garden!

my-scene | 15:24 Fri 01st Jan 2010 | Animals & Nature

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Can anyone identify this bird?
It is shaped like a robin but twice the size and it is black all over. It is so round it looks as if it could just POP at any moment! It is like a cartoon bird! I've looked up bird sites but can't see anything like it.

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Prudie

Presumably you know it's not just a fat blackbird? In what way is it different? That might help the experts in the identification.

my-scene

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It doesn't look like a fat blackbird(male or female). It just looks like a big robin but it is black all over including beak and eyes. I have just googled "black robin" and I didn't realise that there is a black robin species and it looks like the one in my garden only mine is much more fatter/rounder as if it has been inflated with a bicycle pump! but the black robin is an endangered bird from Chatham Island. So still don't know what it is but if you look up an image of a black robin then you will get an idea of what mine looks like!

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my-scene

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I have a picture but it's not very clear. I will try and get a better one tomorrow. How do you post a picture on AB?

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tamborine

Upload here then post address on Ab

http://www.flickr.com...h/?q=mink&w=all&s=int

josaphine32

You need to go on to photobucket.com there you can upload and then link it to AB....I found this out through ab

good luck

my-scene

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Thanks, will give that a try. I'm sure my funny bird will be back as he's been here two days in a row. I don't know how he manages to fly!

alavahalf

Here's a Chatam Island Robin....your description sound a bit like this one.
http://i39.photobucke.../fixitagain/photo.jpg

wildwood

I can guarantee you it is not a chatham island robin. It may be a (juvenile) blackbird from a late brood. In cold weather they fluff the feathers out to trap an air layer and so conserve their heat.

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my-scene

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I haven't seen my funny bird back yet but I have seen plenty of blackbirds brown and black with their feathers fluffed out but this bird wasn't like them. I will keep watching out for it.

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