ROBIN FACT SHEET
Robin in Winter
THE ROBIN - Latin Name: Erithacus rubecula
Feeding
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A specialist Robin and songbird mixed seed will bring robins to your garden.
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Feed that contains berries and insects will help the robin survive the winter.
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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
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Large, black eyes.
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Forehead, throat and breast are red.
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Upper part of a robin is olive-brown.
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Robins have very slender legs.
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Young are spotted and are lacking red colour
Habitat Gardens, town, hedgerows, woods with undergrowth, copses, scrub, villages and towns.
Song: The robin’s song is a high, clear tone with a wide range of notes. Calls include – tic, tick, tic.
Often sings late into the evening
Breeding : May to July
Eggs: 4-6 pale eggs.White with sandy or reddish freckles which are brooded by the female robin
Incubation:13-14 days
Fledging: 12-14 days. Two or more broods
Nest
Cup shaped 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.
Robin in Yorkshire
Why not watch this short video of a robin in my garden –
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If you have any robin stories, facts, poems or knowledge please let me know as I’d love to add them to this Robin Information Sheet. Trisha
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