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  BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - European robin
Robins are small birds with a body length of 14cm.
Robins are not considered to be globally threatened.
Robins have a rich and warbling song, sometimes described as mournful in winter but cheerful in spring.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/253.shtml   (318 words)

  
  Robin - Search View - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The European robin is technically a chat thrush, not a true thrush.
The American robin, a true thrush, is one of the largest and most numerous of American thrushes, with a body about 25 cm (about 10 in) long.
The male is olive-gray; the top and sides of the head are fl, the chin and throat are white with fl streaks, and the breast and underparts are reddish orange.
encarta.msn.com /text_761563995__1/Robin.html   (330 words)

  
 European Robin - Erithacus rubecula - Rougegorge familier
European Robin is easily identified by its reddish-orange face and breast, contrasting with whitish lower underparts.
European Robin typical call is a sharp "tic" repeated and uttered in short series.
European Robin nests in various places, such as ledges inside porches and sheds, also in nest boxes, and even in cans, pots and any place where it may build its nest.
www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/passeriformes/european.robin.html   (997 words)

  
 European Robin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
European Robins and similar small European species are often called chats.
The European Robin is a common European songbird.
Thus, robin subspecies are mainly distinguished by forming resident populations on islands and in mountaineous areas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Robin   (1471 words)

  
 British Garden Birds - Robin
The Robin is a plump bird with bright orange-red breast, face, throat and cheeks edged with grey, a white belly and olive-brown upper parts.
Robins are territorial all year round; during the spring and summer this territoriality is for breeding, but at other times individual robins hold territories for feeding.
Robins, both males and females, hold their own separate feeding territories in the winter, which they defend vigorously.
www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/robin.htm   (672 words)

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