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The robin has appeared on many Christmas postage stamps. An old British folk tale seeks to explain the robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain.
The black robin is a small, sparrow-sized bird measuring 10–15 centimetres (3.9–5.9 in). Its plumage is almost entirely brownish-black, with a black bill and brownish-black yellow-soled feet. [2] Females are usually slightly smaller than males. Male songs are a simple phrase of 5 to 7 notes. Its call is a high-pitched single note.
Eopsaltria is a genus of small forest passerines known in Australia as the yellow robins.They belong to the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.The name is derived from the Ancient Greek for "dawn singer/song" because of their dawn chorus.
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The type species was subsequently designated as the oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840. [4] [5] The name Copsychus is from the Ancient Greek kopsukhos or kopsikhos, meaning "blackbird". [6] The genus contains 17 species: [7]
Described by Belgian naturalist Auguste Drapiez in 1819, the pink robin is a member of the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. [5] [6] Sibley and Ahlquist's DNA-DNA hybridisation studies placed this group in a Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines, including pardalotes, fairy-wrens, honeyeaters, and crows. [7]
The North Island robin (Petroica longipes; Māori: toutouwai, pronounced [ˈtoutouwai]) [2] is a species of Australasian robin endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.It and the South Island robin (P. australis) of the South Island and Stewart Island were once considered conspecific (and called the "New Zealand robin"), but mitochondrial DNA sequences have shown that the two lineages split ...