Garden Friend
by Rob Hemphill
Title
Garden Friend
Artist
Rob Hemphill
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
As I pottered around our Irish garden, this friendly robin kept following me hoping I would do some digging! I saw him pose on a pergola post, so hurriedly nipped indoors to get my camera. He waited patiently and I was rewarded by this charming image.
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.
About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inches) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upper-parts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
The term robin is also applied to some birds in other families with red or orange breasts. These include the American robin (Turdus migratorius), which is a thrush, and the Australasian robins of the family Petroicidae, the relationships of which are unclear.
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April 9th, 2020
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