European Robin
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European Robin - Erithacus rubecula.
The European robin (Erithacus rebecula) is a small perching bird that can be found throughout many parts of Europe. It has an orange-red breast and face, olive-brown wings and back, a white to light-brown belly.
European robin
Although there is another robin frequenting the bird feeder, this one is always near the henhouse...
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European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
British Isles
The European Robin is found throughout Europe, north Africa and the Middle East extending to central Siberia.
European Robin
Both Sexes
Brown upperparts and red breast.
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European robin
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The European robin has a bright orange/red chest and is the most distinctive bird of the robin family. Despite the bright chest of the European robin, other species of female robin are fairly plain and brown in colour.
The European robin is technically a chat thrush, not a true thrush.
The plump body is about about 5.5 in long; its general color is
olive-brown, with a characteristic reddish-orange breast.
Erithacus rubecula - European Robin (photo)
Luscinia
Luscinia luscinia - Thrush Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos - Common Nightingale (photo)
Luscinia calliope - Siberian Rubythroat
Luscinia svecica - Bluethroat
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I'm guessing the original robin was a European Robin and it was applied to our American Robin. I was dubious about it as a kid, there weren't too many barns in our urban Indianapolis neighborhood.
Despite its name, the American Robin is more closely related to thrushes than to European Robins; the bird was named by early English settlers for the resemblance of its colouration to the European Robin they left behind.
Just the Facts: The Nightingale is similar in size to the European Robin, at 15-16.5 cm length. It is plain brown above except for the red-sided tail with red side patches. It is buff to white below. Sexes are similar.
The similarity between the orange-red coloring of its breast to that of the smaller and unrelated European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) led to its common name. The American Robin is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
A good example is the common blackbird that is occurs naturally in Europe, Asia, Africa and has been intrioduced into Australia and New Zealand. Another popular true thrush is the American Robin, which is unrelated to the European Robin which is not ...
 See also: Robin, Flycatcher, Nightingale, Chat, Bluet
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