Robin Fact Sheet
Dec 20th, 2007 by Birdy Trish
Robin
Latin Name: Erithacus rubecula
Feeding
A specialist Robin and songbird mixed seed will bring robins to your garden.
Feed that contains berries and insects will help the robin survive the winter.
Their usual diet is insects and their larvae, spiders and worms, weed seeds and fruit berries, seeds, nuts and oats.
Loves mealworms and eating from birdtables.
Description
Large, black eyes. Forehead, throat and breast are red. Upper part of a robin is olive-brown. Robins have large eyes and very slender legs.
Habitat Gardens, town, hedgerows, woods with undergrowth.
Song: The robin’s song is a high, clear tone with a wide range of notes. Calls include - tic, tick, tic
Breeding : May to July
Eggs: 4-6 pale eggs.White with sandy or reddish freckles
Incubation:13-14 days
Fledging: 12-14 days. Two or more broods
Nest
Mostly made of moss, leaves and stalks. Often built near the ground amongst creepers, at the foot of a bush. Nests in gardens and hedgerows.
Robins are well known for making nests in a variety of places, such as old kettles, old watering cans, shelves in sheds.
Size: The robin is a medium sized bird, up to 5 1/2 inches.
Robins are solitary birds, sometimes fighting with eath other over territory.
Robins can become very tame and have been known to take feed out of the palm of a person’s hand.
So if you keep feeding the birds you too may gain the confidence of a robin and have the unbelievable feeling of a robin sitting on your hand.
Other posts about robins -
Short video of a robin in my garden - the beginning looks blurred but the rest of the video is very clear and the robin looks so cute!
Robins foretelling the weather
THE ROBIN - robins need feeding in winter
Have a good day.
What did you really enjoy about this article? Trisha
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