Four calling birds is an extract from the song the Twelve Days of Christmas. The song originates in England in 1780 and the calling birds refers to "colly birds" or the European Blackbird.
According to the Christmas song there were 4 Calling birds 3 French hens 2 Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a pear tree.
Four. They are actually "calling birds."
Calling birds:"On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: four calling birds...."
Four calling birds
4 Calling Birds - this refers to the Four Gospels and/ or the Four Evangelists.
Birds vary in price. But if one is looking for the birds spoken of in the Christmas song, the four calling birds, there is news. They are not calling birds, but rather are colly birds, meaning "black as coal". Black birds (blackbirds or a cousin, the starling) can be had cheaply.
Four calling birds (three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree)
6 (partridge, turtle doves, French hen, calling birds, geese alaying, swans aswimming)
Five gold rings (four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree)
Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Six geese-a-laying (five gold rings, four calling birds
Your true love gave you four calling birds. How generous!