European Robin facts: robin redbreasts | Animal Fact Files
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2020
- European robins live in Europe as well as western parts of Asia and northern parts of Africa. They are also known as robin red breasts or just red breasts due to their bright colored chests and necks. These little bird tend to stay in the same area all year round and even sing throughout the entire year! They do so to defend their territories. These birds are so defensive of their land that they'll even attack objects that simply look like an intruder - including red colored flowers!
Scientific Name: Erithacus rubecula
Range: Europe, western Asia, northern Africa
Size: 8 inch (20 centimeter) wingspan; 0.5 (14 grams)
Diet: earthworms, insects, seeds, and fruit
Lifespan: 2+ years
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I started feeding the birds in my neighbourhood this winter (I live in the UK), originally primarily crows and magpies were coming, because I was giving them peanuts and cheese, then the wood pigeons, then gradually the smaller birds, robins, blackbirds, wagtails too. The last few mornings because we had snow the robin has started flying up in the tree to greet me and say hello to me looking me right in the eye. Today he literally sang to me, I stayed and listened to him and felt like I couldn't leave him, I literally felt bonded to him with my heart, like I needed to be there for him as he sang with all his heart to me, until eventually he broke away and flew to his little bush where he lives. I gave him some more bird seed then went back inside my own home. I felt like he opened his little heart for me to say thank you for feeding him during the snow to keep him alive. I felt blessed by this cute tiny little bird. 🙏🐦💕
Thank you for sharing ! You are very kind...
This is a beautiful story! Love hearing about experiences like this with wildlife. So heartwarming!
Yep. We have one out here atm. He's class. If we sit outside, he always comes and says hello and takes the food. He's used to used to us and sits around and comes closer every few minutes and the flys off and he comes back again. I've sat and watched him when he's close. He cleans his hair (Spikes it up and then fluffs it down) and then has a look about and he comes back down for a chat or a feed and then repeat. Yep. My wee mate knows we love him and he feel's it back.
Is tiny bird. Is adorable. TELL BIRD HE IS PRETTY
Beautiful little birds so cute 😍 💕 😘
These birds really like to stay close to humans and are very protective and well always spent alone
In medival England is was common place to give common small birds & animals human names ahead of their descriptors. This is why the Redbreast was named Robin. Similar birds that gor this treatment was the Jenny Wren, the Mag Pie & Jack Daw, Jack Snipe etc there are many more, some have stuck, some have not. Also, I'm sure you've spotted that the Robin actually has an orange breast, however it was named before we had a word for orange. We didn't get that until we got the fruit.
I wasn't aware of all of these! Thank you so much for sharing!!
The colour system we learn as kids are a great example of a human construct. The colours we give a name to exist on an unbroken spectrum which we have arbitrarily chopped up. The fact that they exist as separate units in our minds is entirely etymological. If we didn't have a name for a hue it would have been included in whichever colour it was closest to in the spectrum.
The Ancient Greeks only had one word for blue and bronze (the metal has a blueish/purplish tinge in the right light, especially when fired). We have made a distinction between them by giving each its own name, but the Greeks talked of beautiful bronze sky and sea. A lot of languages don't distinguish between blue and green at all, but the fact that we (English speakers) do is interesting. We have divorced them from each by naming them, but it's a trial separation which is often tested when people argue about whether turquoise is more one or the other.
In an attempt to impart order to such borderline cases, we invent words like turquoise, azure, teal, mauve, puce, maroon, etc.
The really weird one is brown. There is no such colour. It doesn't exist in a rainbow. You can't have a brown flash light. We experience it as a colour but brown light is not a thing. What we are seeing is a version of red/orange with varying amounts of dark and light, and we construct brown by context and have named it, so it exists as a definition only.
Lovely pootis bird!
Pootis Spencer here
If a robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels all of heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen?
-- Source unknown
Apprently robins see humans as giant pigs (they used to follow pigs around as they turn up the ground with their nose) anyways, one of this years fledglings has decided to literally move into my house 😂 he sleeps over most nights, comes when called and hops around the entire house catching my many spider's I use to stop midges coming in during summer. Hes being attacked by his mother to make him move on however hes standing firm and sang his first "claim" song last week, he claimed me from the other robins 😅 now he sits singing away most days while sitting in his make shift nest in the kitchen. Hes a super star on facebook, i just hope the little fella is fiesty enough to keep defending as i would love to see how for this friendship will actually go. Robins are the best period ❤❤
Awww thank you for sharing this!!!! I love the European robins, SO ADORABLE!!! 😂😂😂❤❤❤
One of my favorite birds. They are cheerful, round and cute, what's not to like? :)
Did you know they sing all night? Anywhere there’s a street light they’re singing all night. No idea when they get any sleep!
I didn't know the lifespan was 2yrs Thank you ❤
Fact #1 : 🎶He rocks in the tree tops all day long, Hoppin and a boppin and singing his song, all the Lil birds on J bird street love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet !🎶
European Robins are so cute and ADORABLE!
Love how r o u n d they are!!!
POOTIS FROM TF2 IRL
Awesome job!😁 Could you do one on the wandering albatross?🙏
The bird of balance connected to the 5th dimension through the hexagonal sphere of the garden on eden. The truth from the Sun attracts the truth of man through science. The color of the Robin is the flying preacher connected to the color creation of light.
1:05 He looks a little ticked off. Maybe he doesn't like to get his picture taken.
Cool bird! Thanks for the video!
To be honest, I can relate. ;)
Just discovered this channel. Amazing! Keep up the work girl!
Thank you so much!!
heres pootis birb
I have a Robin couple in my garden they live in my ched, i feed them seeds and non salted seeds bread i live Netherlands, IJsselstein a bird paradise.
That sounds lovely!
one of my fav birds! they're just so cute and where I live they can be bold little birbs, one was a foot away from me and wasnt threatened by me whatsoever
if you havent can you do pie wagtails as well? they're another fav of mine
Oh that's a cool suggestion! Thank you! And yes robins are amazing! Love them 🥰
Awww, guys! 😊 thank you! I love european robins, such a fierce spirit in such a tiny body 😀🐦
They're awesome birds! =D Thanks for the suggestion!
I want this bird so cute
Would love to see them in real life!
I saw a robin under my trampoline a moment ago :D oh I think they didn’t want to be in the snow cuz no food there
What a cool sighting!
Nice content You deserve more Subscribers
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Such a sweet voice and beautiful bird 😍.
Every year we welcome Red-breasted Flycatcher a similar looking species to our region as wintering migratory bird .
Thanks for sharing.
Greetings from India 🇮🇳
That much be lovely to see each year!
HI! I saw three of them in my tree yesterday after a heavy snowfall in Tulsa Oklahoma USA! Has anyone else seen these here in America?
Oh wow! You saw some vagrants! How lucky!!
@@AnimalFactFiles - exactly, hope to see again to get video of them. Tiny little territory birds. Wonder why it’s so hard for them to survive in USA
Thanks for bringing the outside world back to us. Ever since this quarantine, I never get to go outside.
Glad it's giving you some peace in these stressful times.
Please please make a video about the wood ducks
Great suggestion! Thanks!! 😊
Pootis bird
Lol. I’m watching it for serious reasons and you’re doing a great job. But it amused me that if from America then American and if not from America, then European. Lol. No matter what country from. Not America=European. Lol