European Robin
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| European Robin | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Erithacus |
| Species: | E. rubecula |
| Binomial name | |
| Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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7-10, see text. |
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The European robin (Erithacus rebecula) is a small bird that is found in many parts of Europe. In English, this bird is usually just called robin. The robin is an insectivore (it eats only insects and bugs.)[1] It is a member of the order Passerine which makes it a perching bird. It has an orange-red breast and face, olive-brown wings and back, a white to light-brown belly. You can sometimes see a blue-grey fringe around the bottom part of the robin's red breast patch. European robins have brown legs and their tail is bluntly square. They have large, black eyes and a small black bill.
Sources [change]
- ↑ (German)Pätzold R (1995). Das Rotkehlchen Erithacus rubecula. Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Magdeburg/Heidelberg: Westarp Wissenschaften/Spektrum. ISBN 3-89432-423-6.
