In article <410421a0$0$43451$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
 "Giny" <g.speelman@GEENROTZOOIxs4all.nl> wrote:

> Does anyone of you know how a blackbird is mentioned in japanese?
> In Romaji and in Kanji?
> I thought it is "mukudori" but in a bird-book I saw a bird called mukudori
> which seems to be quite different of what I think a blackbird looks like.

Blackbird (scientific name: Turdus merula) does not distribute in Japan, 
yet it has a Japanese name, "kuroutadori", that means "black song bird".

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Yoshiaki FUYAMA
fuyamay@cosmos.dti2.ne.jp