EUROPEAN ROBIN: a precious feather baby, a ruddy sky dumpling, a good friend, will help you find your keys, full of ice cream
AMERICAN ROBIN: big, often wet, surly, has your wallet, killed a rat underneath the bird feeder to make an example to the other animals
You do realize that that adorable little thing there will viciously attack your laundry if it happens to be the same color as another robin's breast, right?
European robins are not precious feather babies. They are assholes.
I grew up with these little miscreants. Are they utterly adorable? Yes. Are they also fully cognizant of the fact that they are, in fact, dinosaurs? Absolutely.
I feel like we need to explore the fact that Chuck is defending his territory, almost as if Bluesky were a window containing a strange bird that is always there when he looks, always chirping,chirping, chirping
Blue jays. I’ve been trying to make friends with the local crows for years, turns out the blue jays have been ganging up on them and running them off. Loudly. In packs.
Fond memories of when Springwatch did a segment based on "who killed cockrobin" and graphically described robins murdering each other (with some slightly less graphic images) at tea time. Packham was gleeful about their violence.
Their Australian cousins have pink chests so we know how they got the name, but yeah. Also the Black Robins are cool because they bounced back from one breeding pair in 1980 to 300 odd now.
