h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I enjoyed reading this entry.

Under 'What's not a blackbird' include the chough - crow fauily, black plumage, yellow, but downward curving beak. Where I live (which is not coastal) there's a pub called The Chough' ans 2 of the schools feature choughs on there badges, so there must nbe a connection. I think I once knew but have now forgotten.BIGAL

Interesting entry

Can the blob be amended? It clearly isn't illustrating the blackbird of the entry, as it has no yellow beak.

Pimmsaloonie

It looks a bit like a female blackbird, but more like a Song Thrush.

it is a female blackbird...
just because they have slightly more colour

Dr Anthea (picture drawer)

fair enough. nevertheless 'blackbirds' aren't named for the plumage of the female.

Yes, I'm disappointed too. There are numerous references in the entry to the beautiful black and yellow markings of the male blackbird, the colours that give the bird its name, and to poems written over the centuries about these, and the fact that the female has non-descript brown plumage to blend into the background. I would have thought a picture of a male blackbird would be much more appropriate.

I tryed to do a male but i couldnt get it to look correct,
I appologise if its not what you were looking for


*hangs up paintbrush*

Sorry, Dr Anthea! I'm sure you put a lot of work into that picture, and it is a very good picture. It's just not what I was expecting, that's all. Please don't hang up your paintbrush!

yep, thanks DrA for putting in the effort to give this a blob - h2g2 would be a duller place without the community artists, but also, being what it is, you can't throw a brick without hitting a critic

Pimms

well i didnt much like the picture,
then again i drew it while going though a bad patch in life,
I was going to do one of the redwinged thingamys but i couldnt find a good picture of one to work off of...

or seven blackbirds... but it looked too crowded...