Dio you know how to recognise the Robin?
- Distinctive with orange-red breast & rounded head and thick neck.
- The Robin remains very still when perched.
- Upright stance, occasionally cocks tail momentarily.
- Mostly on ground or prominent perch.
- It’s song is a varied series of rolling notes and twitters, some drawn out, others quite rapid.
- The song has a melancholy quality.
- It’s call is a sharp, metallic “tick”, sometimes repeated rapidly in a continuous phrase, the sound is reminiscent of winding a clock.
- Many are rescheduling their song recitals to the middle of the night, when motorists are tucked up in their beds and cars are off the road. A singer on the nightshift can get his message out without having to strain his syrinx, the avian equivalent of vocal chords.
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