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Erithacus rubecula with cocked head🐦

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SpeciesPasseriformesMuscicapidae
Birds

🐦European robin

Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)

El petirrojo europeo​ (Erithacus rubecula) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Muscicapidae.​ Está distribuido por toda Europa, principalmente en la región meridional y occidental del continente, donde habita todo el año, y es migrante parcial en el norte de Europa y noroeste de África. El petirrojo es un pájaro sociable, atrevido y curioso que acostumbra a salir del bosque y plantarse a mitad de un camino para ver quién llega a su territorio, emitiendo su característica voz de alerta: un chip-chip metálico y seco. Su canto es un gorjeo musical, muy melódico, parecido al del ruiseñor.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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6
Photos
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Measurements
10
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
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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
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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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