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A Robin making an April Fool of itself (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by KevinFRK to c/birding

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Contact sheet form as it strikes me as a little more bandwidth friendly.

Ludlow, UK, April 1st, with a Canon R6 + RF800mm

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[–] Anticorp 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What sort of Robin is this? The ones around here are larger and only have orange chests, not faces.

Edit: apparently ours are called American Robins and they look like this:

[–] KevinFRK 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it seems the American colonists were none-to-observant when calling the birds they saw the names of birds they were familiar with in Europe. Different times, and all that.

The American Robin from the picture struck me as a European Thrush/Blackbird (Blackbirds being a member of the thrush family) head (beak especially), and so it proves scientifically as well.

[–] Anticorp 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As it so happens, I'm sitting in my backyard right now, soaking up the rare sunshine, and there are about 20 American Robins running around on my lawn, hunting worms. I just saw one pull a huge worm out of the ground about 2 feet away from me. It's really neat watching them. They run along the grass until they hear something, then they cock their head, putting their ear closer to the ground, then they attack with all the force their little 2 ounce bodies can muster, and yank the worm right out of the ground.

Edit: I got an okay picture for you of one of them listening, but it won't let me upload it for some reason. I'll try on a fresh comment.

Edit 2: yeah, it won't let me. Bummer. The server probably updated again or something.

[–] KevinFRK 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds ever so like a UK song thrush or blackbird - and yes, fun to watch!

On posting pictures in replies (or indeed at all), i find I have to use the raw Lemmy website rather than the Alexandrite overlay. Might that be your issue?

[–] Anticorp 1 points 10 months ago

I tried using 2 different apps and the mobile site. I'm able to post picture comments elsewhere, so idk what the problem is. It gives some sort of invalid json character error on this thread only.