"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
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All,

We have a bird which looks very like a slightly dark female blackbird
which
happily eats its way through apples that we put out for our blackcap
warblers.

This seems to be a single bird which does this (or perhaps it's just the
females) and never having seem a fruit loving blackbird before we tried
long
and hard to find another bird which it might be, but with no success.

I seem to recall that blackbirds, like humans, cannot make vitamin C and
this may be an explanation.