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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 ...
The earliest extant score of the ballad appears in William Ballet's Lute Book [] (c. 1600) as "Robin Hood is to the greenwood gone". [1] References to the song can be dated back to 1586, in a letter from Sir Walter Raleigh to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester saying "The Queen is in very good terms with you now, and, thanks be to God, will be pacified, and you are again her Sweet Robin."
The Australasian robin family was first introduced in 1888, as a subfamily with the spelling Petroecinae, by the English ornithologist Alfred Newton. [ 1 ] Although named after true robins , the Australian robins, along with many other insect-eating birds, were originally classified as flycatchers in a huge family Muscicapidae . [ 2 ]
Among those 15 additional songs on the second part of “Tortured Poets” is a track called “Robin,” a piano ballad in which Swift draws imagery of animals and alludes to adolescence.
The American robin rejects cowbird eggs, so brood parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird is rare, and the parasite's chick does not often survive to fledging. [41] In a study of 105 juvenile robins, 77.1% were infected with endoparasites, Syngamus sp. being the most commonly encountered, in 57.1% of the birds. [42]
The death of Robin Williams silenced one of Hollywood's greatest and funniest voices.From sitcoms like "Mork and Mindy," to the touching and inspiring "Dead Poet's Society," Williams was an actor ...
The Japanese robin, along with the Ryukyu robin, can be traced back to 1835 when they were placed into one of the Coenraad Jacob Temminck's works under the name Erithacus akahige. After the 2006 molecular phylogenetic study, the species was placed into a clade under Larvivora, meaning "caterpillar eater," giving it half of its current ...
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