The European robin is a small insect-eating songbird with an orange-red breast and face, found across Europe to Western Siberia and North Africa. It’s unrelated to the larger American robin, a thrush.
Quick answers
What is it?Bird
Carnivore?Omnivore
Dangerous?No
Domesticated?No
Awake when?Daytime
Hibernates?No
Kept as a pet?No
Do people eat it?No
At a glance
Found inEurope
HabitatForest, Towns, Farmland
ColoursBrown, Red
SizeTiny
Length12.5–14 cm
Legs2
Covered inFeathers
Lives alone
Lives for2 years
Can fly
Lays eggs
In the wild
- Where it lives
- Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa.
- What it eats
- Mainly insects, plus seed mixtures and scraps from bird tables; occasionally small vertebrates.
Did you know
Fiercely territorial — that friendly garden bird will fight to the death.
Because so many die in their first year, a robin’s average life expectancy is just 1.1 years.
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