Stats

Lifespan: 2-12 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Insectivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: Europe
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Speed
Status: Common

About

A small, round-bodied songbird instantly recognised by its vivid orange-red face and breast. Unusually, both males and females share the same plumage — the red breast is a territorial signal, not a sex marker, and robins will fight rivals to the death to defend their patch.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Erithacus
Species: Erithacus rubecula