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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)

Rudzik, rudzik zwyczajny, raszka (Erithacus rubecula) – gatunek małego ptaka wędrownego z rodziny muchołówkowatych (Muscicapidae), wcześniej zaliczany do drozdowatych (Turdidae). Jedyny przedstawiciel rodzaju Erithacus. Nie jest zagrożony.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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
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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
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyMuscicapidae
  6. ›genusErithacus
  7. ›speciesErithacus rubecula
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
All 10 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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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
More photos
Erithacus rubecula with cocked head200218 Rotkehlchen2018 12 04 Roodborst
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