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SEASONAL NATURAL HISTORY
At Christmas, we are inundated with cards featuring Robins – the Eurasian Robin Erithacus rubecula that is. I mention that because early settlers to America, no ornithologists, saw a thumping great thing a bit larger than a Blackbird, and, because it had a red breast, called it a ‘Robin.’ The name stuck, and it is the Robin of the songs: ‘I hear a Robin singing,’ and ‘When the red, red Robin comes bob-bob-bobbing along… more at The Jungle Drums Online
At Christmas, we are inundated with cards featuring Robins – the Eurasian Robin Erithacus rubecula that is. I mention that because early settlers to America, no ornithologists, saw a thumping great thing a bit larger than a Blackbird, and, because it had a red breast, called it a ‘Robin.’ The name stuck, and it is the Robin of the songs: ‘I hear a Robin singing,’ and ‘When the red, red Robin comes bob-bob-bobbing along… more at The Jungle Drums Online