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American Robin Turdus migratorius   [Linnaeus, 1766]
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Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae
BTO Codes: AR, AMERO EURING No: 12030
Number in Britain: Fewer than 20 records
Conservation Status:
UK: Not Assessed
European: Not evaluated
Global: Least Concern
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Status in UK: (A)  Accidental
Subspecies: migratorius recorded in Britain (of 7 subsp. in the world)
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Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 38 cm Weight: M/F: 80 g    
Scientific name from: L.: turdus=a thrush and L.: migratorius=a wanderer (from migrare=to migrate)
World Distribution: BREEDS: North America, WINTERS: south to Central America
Habitat: Woodland, pasture, farmland, towns
Diet: Invertebrates and fruit
TitBit: In summer, females sleep on the nests and males congregate in roosts, in winter hundreds of thousands of American Robins can gather in a single roost.  
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Records and Distribution
First Record: Lundy, 1952 (Davis, P.1953. British Birds 46:364-368)
Total Number of Records (1950-2007): 19 Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in: October to February
Most Recent County Records:
   Scotland: Dumfries & Galloway (1966), Highland (2006), Northeast (1988), Outer Hebrides (1975), Orkney (1961), Shetland (1982),
   North-east England: West Yorkshire (2007),
   North-west England:
   English Midlands:
   Eastern England: Lincolnshire (2004),
   South-east England: Greater London (2006), Surrey (2006),
   South-west England: Cornwall (2003), Devon (1982), Dorset (1966), Isles of Scilly (2006),
   Wales: Caernarfonshire (2003),

Information provided by BirdGuides and BBRC
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Other Names
Gaelic: Welsh:
Danish: Vandredrossel Dutch: Roodborstlijster
Finnish: Punarintarastas French: Merle migrateur
German: Wanderdrossel Hungarian: Vándorrigó
Icelandic: Farţröstur Irish: Smólach Imirce
Italian: Tordo migratore Norwegian: Vandretrost
Polish: Drozd wedrowny Portuguese: Tordo-americano
Spanish: Robín Swedish: Vandringstrast
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See Also:
All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
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These data should be cited as:
Robinson, R.A. (2005) BirdFacts: profiles of birds occurring in Britain & Ireland (v1.24, June 2009). BTO Research Report 407, BTO, Thetford (http://www.bto.org/birdfacts)

 

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