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and mistle thrush, diverged early from the Eurasian lineage of Turdus thrushes after spreading north from Africa. However, the blackbird is descended from ancestors that had colonised the Canary Islands from Africa and subsequently reached Europe from there. It is close in evolutionary terms to the island thrush (T. poliocephalus) of Southeast Asia and islands in the southwest Pacific, which probably diverged from

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