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Erithacus rubecula with cocked head🐦

Photo: Francis C. Franklin · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesPasseriformesMuscicapidae
Birds

🐦European robin

Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rødhalsen (Erithacus rubecula) også kaldet rødkælken er en lille spurvefugl. Den findes i stort set alle haver i Danmark, hvor der fodres fugle, og kan nemt kendes på det røde bryst, de tynde ben og de i forhold til fuglens størrelse relativt store, sorte øjne. Det tydeligt røde bryst og rødhalsens sang bruges hele året i kampen om territorier. Fuglene foretrækker skove og krat, men også gerne ældre haver og parker. De søger føde i lav vegetation og på jorden. De fleste rødhalse trækker til Vest- og Sydvesteuropa og Nordafrika om vinteren, men enkelte fugle – især hanner – vælger i varme vintre at blive i Danmark, ligesom Danmark om vinteren også besøges af mange rødhalse fra det øvrige Skandinavien.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
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Photos
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/3,500th of your weight
Also called
Robin
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
19 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European robin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
19 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European robin yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

More

More about the European robin

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Nightingale — last shared an ancestor ≈ 19 million years ago.
In other languages
rödhake (sv), Erithacus rubecula (de), rødstrupe (nb), зарянка (ru), Erithacus rubecula (it), Erithacus rubecula (nl) … and 26 more languages

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