<p>A dead Song Thrush (<i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turdus_philomelos" title="Turdus philomelos">Turdus philomelos</a></i>) in a basket decorated with ferns and flowers. 
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"This may be the answer to our male songthrush's long vigil (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.patriciascott.org/winding/2006_06_01_month.php#114962798950729866">story</a>) - - his mate perhaps, found dead on the grass.  In view of his performance I gave her a special burial."
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/72241190@N00">Anna Scott</a>
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