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The magpie-robins or shamas (from shama, Bengali and Hindi for C. malabaricus) [2] are medium-sized insectivorous birds (some also eat berries and other fruit) in the genus Copsychus. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family. [3] It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except ...
Robins can use up to 10% of their body weight to keep warm on a single winter night. But when temperatures drop and the ground freezes, finding food becomes very hard for the garden birds without ...
Providing the right environment. Providing birds with a safe and warm space is just as vital as extra food at this time of year. "Robins often use nest boxes as roosting sites during the winter ...
Once the robins clear out the berries, the birds are then forced to migrate in search of more food. To help the birds survive the cold, Winger said people can offer seeds in bird feeders or ...
They will flock to fermented Pyracantha berries, and after eating sufficient quantities will exhibit intoxicated behavior, such as falling over while walking. Robins forage primarily on the ground for soft-bodied invertebrates, and find worms by sight (and sometimes by hearing), [27]: 149 pouncing on them and then pulling them up. [20]
The South Island robin is a small passerine, 10–18 cm in length and weighing around 35 g. North Island robins do resemble both females and juveniles of the South Island robins, as well as all the Stewart Island robins, which can sometimes make it difficult to distinguish between the three.
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