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.
But before they attack they have sing offs, loud, long battles of song. Our old allotment was the border line between two robin territories and we got to hear the full song battles every time we were there.