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European Robin
Erithacus rubecula
53.2251, -1.60857
Field Notes
Description:
This beautiful little Robin was cheerily singing his heart out on his perch as we were out for a walk this weekend.
The distinctive orange breast of both sexes contributed to the European Robin's original name of redbreast (orange as the name of a colour was unknown in English until the sixteenth century, by which time the fruit of that name had been introduced). In the fifteenth century, when it became popular to give human names to familiar species, the bird came to be known as Robin redbreast, which was eventually shortened to Robin.
Habitat:
He was sitting on a bare branch out in the Derbyshire Dales countyside but It is also found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
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