Familiar robin

The familiar Rougegorge (not to be confused with the American Robin, also called Blackbird of America ) is a Oiseau Passeriforme. Classically placed in the former family of the Turdidae, it currently appears, with the other representatives of this one, in that of the Muscicapidae.

General characteristics

scientific Name: Erithacus rubecula
Family: Muscicapidae
Size: 14 cm
Masse: 16 to 22 grams
maximum Âge: 18 years

Aspect

The male and the Femelle are almost identical, with a Couronne, wing S, the top and the Queue of color Brun E, a gray band on the sides of the throat, a white belly and famous “the red throat”, more precisely of orange color dark. The identification of the young people can appear difficult, because they miss the red spot and they present a brown Plumage mottled strongly resembling that of the young person of a member of the same family, the Rossignol philomèle. The Robin is slightly smaller than a Moineau, it is rondelet and high on legs, its black eyes are also characteristic.

Behavior

Its not very savage nature and its gravitational plumage made it popular to generations of gardeners; actually the robin belongs to a very aggressive species of bird, and certain males fight sometimes with death to defend their territory. Present in almost each garden, it is one of the least wild birds, seeking its food near the human ones gardening. It will go as far as coming to nourish alive preys, like worms of ground or worms of flour, presented to the hand. If the winter is hard, it will become even more familiar, because the lack of food caused by snow and the ice makes it very vulnerable. The robin defends a territory with length of year, except during the moults or if the winter is very cold. In winter, the females occupy and defend also a territory. This one their is necessary to not only nest but also to guarantee a sufficient source of food. A robin without territory dies at the end of a few weeks. This is why this space is defended with such an energy. In general, it is enough that the owner exhibe his drill plate red so that the intruder moves back but it can arrive that the fight begins and the engagements are completed sometimes by the death of the one of the adversaries. Contrary to many other birds, the robin lives as a recluse during the autumn and the winter, male and female remaining on their respective winter territory with as result which they continue to sing even the winter. The robin seems well to see in the darkness, because it is still active the evening when there is no more light.

Habitat

It is especially in winter that the robin comes in the gardens from the cities and the villages. At the beautiful season, he lives the Bois and the Forêt S or the Bocage in the Haie S, the dense small woods and underwoods. In certain areas, the robins remain all the year close to the man. This small bird spends the night on a bulky bush, a Lierre, sometimes in a nesting box.

Reproduction

Period of nesting: April at August
Many incubations: 1-2
Many eggs: 4 to 7 white eggs, mouchetés brown-russet-red
Incubation: 13 to 14 days (female)
Nidification: The robins couple themselves as of December. In general, the female joined the male on its territory. The coupling and the nesting are earlier if the bird is well nourished. When the female lays a brooded news, the male gives the responsability itself to nourish the preceding one.
Nest: The robin makes its nest in the holes of tree and wall, also in the gardens and the hedges, among the climbing plants, on the racks of the dependences, often near a grassy tuft or of a shrub. It uses sometimes boxes with letters or worn cans. It builds a hemispherical nest built containing foam, of grass and dry sheets, furnished with sleeping bag, feather and hairs.
Standard of nesting box: Nesting box with large opening

open or half-open Nesting box. Interior floor: min. 100 X 100 Misters Vieux containers in tin, jugs or others of a minimal capacity of 25 Cl, located at the shade and perforated to allow water to run out. Attach the nesting box on a tree, with a height from approximately 1,5 meter. Furnish with a small crown of braided straw.

Take-off: 2-3 weeks

Migration

Migrating partial, some robins spend the winter to Europe.

Voice

The robin sings all the year safe in summer. In winter, the two sexes defend each one a territory while singing. Its mélodieux and lengthened song is used to him to defend its territories of spring and winter.

Natural food

The robin nourishes itself in the open campaigns and the Sous-bois. Its food mode is especially made up of the invertebrates living by ground (insects, in particular Coléoptère S, Escargot S, Ver S, Araignée S). Fall at the beginning of spring, it consumes also many bay S and other small Fruit S. Its technique of hunting is well adapted to the mixture of thick vegetation and free spaces which one finds in the gardens and the underwoods. Perched with low height, the bird observes the surroundings, descends, seizes its prey and pole again. Or it hops, stopping here and there to seek a victim. In forest, the robin benefits from the insects disturbed by the Faisan S, stag S and Sanglier S. It is perhaps for that which it is so familiar and which it follows in a very interested way the Bêche of the Jardinier. One also saw robins following Taupe S digging their galleries and catching Ver S.

Mangers

Follower of the mangers, where it particularly regales worms of flour, the robin also nourishes small Graine S, of Noix, oats, pudding for birds, etc the robin adores the Beurre and the Margarine. It accepts bread the crumbs, grease, the remains of Viande and Potato. Certain robins eat the Cacahuète S placed in a net. Asocial, it divides the mangers with the other robins only in period of Disette. The robins seek their food on the ground especially; this is why it is advisable to get to them Aliment S (dry Raisins, bay S dried, rolled oats soaked in oil, insects) on the level of the ground, safe from the Pluie.

Inspiration

Its English name " Robin" was taken again by the first partner of Batman.

See too

the robin was represented on a French postage stamp whose version was the object of speculation. See Robin (stamp);
Rouge-gorge was the nickname of Aristide Bruant.

External bonds

Be-X-old: Малінаўка (птушка)

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