European robin

European robin
Call recorded in Gran Canaria
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Erithacus
Species:	E. rubecula
Binomial name
Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
7–10, see text.
Range of E rubecula   Breeding   Resident   Non-breeding   Possible extinct & Introduced
Synonyms[2]
Erithacus dandalus subsp. sardus Kleinschmidt, 1906 Erithacus rubecula subsp. armoricanus Lebeurier & Rapine, 1936 Erithacus rubecula subsp. sardus Kleinschmidt, 1906 Motacilla rubecula Linnaeus, 1758

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 Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.^[3] It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in the west and south of its range, and migratory in the north and east of its range where winters are harsher.

It is 12.5–14.0 cm (4.9–5.5 in) in length; the male and female are identical in plumage, with an orange-toned red breast and face lined with grey, brown upper-parts and a whitish belly. Juveniles are distinct, freckled brown all over and without the red breast; first-winter immatures are like the adults, except for more obvious yellow-brown tips to the wing covert feathers (inconspicuous or absent in adults).