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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social |
EUROPEAN ROBIN: a precious feather baby, a ruddy sky dumpling, a good friend, will help you find your keys, full of ice cream AMERICAN ROBIN: big, often wet, surly, has your wallet, killed a rat underneath the bird feeder to make an example to the other animals
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Socrates Johnson (Paul)
@socratesjohnson.bsky.social
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European robin: Formal name of Erithacus rubecula. Elegant. Refined. American Robin: Yeah my name is Turdus turdus wanna start something?
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Ponder Stibbons
@pdb.codes
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They not proper robins are they.
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Dreadnought Holiday
@dreadships.bsky.social
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Just checking here - you mean these assholes?
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Get To Know Nature
@gettoknownature.bsky.social
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"Say that again to my face!"
#TeamAmericanRobin
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Abhorrent Abby
@abhorrentabby.bsky.social
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EUROPEAN RIVER OTTER: a soft and wise gentleman SOUTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER: knows exactly when and how you will die
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GrumpyAF
@maggiedawitch.bsky.social
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Search UK seagulls vs Aussie seagulls 🤣
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Claire 🐝
@isolinearchip.bsky.social
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For real though, why are American robins so wet and greasy looking all the time?
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Jedda
@j3dda.bsky.social
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Bold
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Kevin Hearne
@kevinhearne.bsky.social
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Well the rat knew what it did
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J.D. Buffington
@jdbuffington.bsky.social
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I absolutely love robins. Ain’t scared of shit. There’s a youngster in my backyard, and it was making nightly calls. I mimicked it and it eyeballed me, then kinda dive-bombed me. I didn’t cower, I watched until it turned up about five feet away. Checking me out checking it out. They’re rad.
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Katie Haskins
@khascat.bsky.social
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My American robins look more like this. chubby.
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Marguerite Turley
@margueriteturl2.bsky.social
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Haha!!! This is hilarious!!!
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John Kaprielian
@johnkaprielian.bsky.social
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I have nothing to say about the European Robin, but the American Robin is not the beast you make it out to be, they are lovely birds and I am happy to have them around.
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@captainsidecar.bsky.social
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The European robin is the avian equivalent of the short guy in the pub who'll stick a glass in your face if he thinks you're looking at him funny.
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Shaenon K. Garrity
@shaenon.bsky.social
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Years ago a guy in England told me how it was just like the Americans to insist on making a bigger and better robin
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Penny ⚧️🏳️⚧️❤️
@psiluvu.bsky.social
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I see no lies.
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Karl Henderson
@karlsoap.bsky.social
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A robin couple like my birdbath. I guess the mockingbirds can't chase them off. And the mockingbirds chase off cats.
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Steel Rat Gamer
@steelrat.bsky.social
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ENGLISH BADGER: Hello good sir, fine day we are having. Mind joining me for tea? AMERICAN BADGER: I WANT YOUR BOOTS, YOUR CLOTHES, AND YOUR LIFE
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Adam Jay
@bullgooseparty.bsky.social
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It’s always shocking when they return in spring and you remember how big they are
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PictureTheSouth
@picturethesouth.bsky.social
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Well..... I'll just be bob, bob, bobbing along then.
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Patrick Fabian
@patrickfabian.bsky.social
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American Robin = genus Turdus.
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Stephanie
@blooming-burbs.bsky.social
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Those American robins do eat invasive jumping worms, so despite their murdery, crazed look, I'm a fan.
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Jo Kershaw
@mthrjo.bsky.social
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They're really aggressive with each other and other birds, though. They're nice to humans because we sometimes dig up worms or otherwise feed them, and they're not scared of us because they know we think they're cute.
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Boston Bugsy
@bostonbugsy.bsky.social
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American Robin all suited up gangster style
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@sweetnotes.bsky.social
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If you get a cross between the two personalities you get cute but deadly mwahahhahahaha
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aquila1nz.bsky.social
@aquila1nz.bsky.social
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NEW ZEALAND ROBINS: don't even have red chests.
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badgertricia
@badgertricia.bsky.social
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This bitch won’t stop harassing my dog 🤬
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Pemberley Intern
@hallie.bsky.social
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Best thread I've read today. Thanks, people in my phone!
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aka60643
@aka60643.bsky.social
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We have lots of American robins living in our yard and nearby. They are so greedy about the bird bath. They will keep splashing around until most or all of the water is gone.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente
@xpi.bsky.social
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I passed a robin killing a snake this morning on my dog walk. I avoided making eye contact... just in case
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@ninjamonkky.bsky.social
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Always forget how big they are, US, until I see one and then I realize I tend to think of them as small birds, when they're chonkers
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Michele
@thukpa.bsky.social
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My forest-dwelling American Robins won’t come anywhere near the feeders. They hop around the gravel drive and grassy areas and leave the feeders to juncos, chickadees, grosbeaks, sparrows, spotted towhee. Have caught the whole flock bathing in the creek though
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Ramsey Hootman
@ramseyhootman.bsky.social
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Suddenly I understand why my childhood conception of robins (gleaned from British storybooks) never quite jibed with reality.
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Lia Pas
@liapas.bsky.social
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This is how bunnies are between the UK and North America too!
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joqatana
@joqatana.bsky.social
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There were 3 bird gangs in my old front yard in Petaluma. The scrub jays, the Robins & the Mockingbirds, who only ganged up when the red berries (pyracantha I think but maybe toyon) were ripe. Also had a gang of turkeys. And one of peacocks up the hill…
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RAFinley
@rafinley.bsky.social
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One of our American robins scolds me about the timing and content of the seed-mix offerings. Also has me saying things like, “I put more worms! I did. And fruits! Frooooots. And worms!” even when neighbors (or worse, passersby) can hear.
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Swoopy
@swoopy.bsky.social
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As someone named Robin (American, more’s the pity) who never felt any connection- you’ve changed my mind.
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Karen D Shipp
@karendshipp.bsky.social
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Decades ago, facing stress on every front, I succumbed to depression and couldn't face the world. An English robin was my first therapist. If I ventured into the garden and pulled a single weed, he'd be there, hungry for worms. Soon I was visiting garden centres, seeking juicy mealworms for him!
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Jennifer R. Povey
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
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You do realize that that adorable little thing there will viciously attack your laundry if it happens to be the same color as another robin's breast, right? European robins are not precious feather babies. They are assholes.
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Trina Carter
@trinaherself.bsky.social
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I have nothing against robins, or birds for that matter, but koi fish are another story. All those cute little goldfish we used to “win” at the fair? Apparently, they grow up to become these ginormous carp that lurk in murky good-luck koi ponds.
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Tired Art Goblin
@spaceturtleart.bsky.social
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I think you have these descriptions reversed.
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Katherine Catmull
@kcatmull.bsky.social
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I did not realize they had different robins in Europe, this explains why Am. ones are always so much bigger than I ever expect based on a many-decades-long steady diet of British novels and poetry.
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Bill G
@rattlequack.bsky.social
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I call American robins "sky potatoes." Aggressive, noisy, dull. The bird no birdwatcher ever bothers to watch.
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Jarathen
@jarathen.bsky.social
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Also that off key song where it thinks it sounds like an oriole, and no you don’t.
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Lisa Buckley
@lisavipes.bsky.social
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Never was there a more inpatient bird than the American Robin watching me while I weeded the garden as if to say, "Can you hurry that along? I've got Robin Business."
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Geo🪨
@geolikestrains.bsky.social
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've always loved european robins and was sad we didn't have them here, they are so cute 🥺
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Rosamoonie
@rosamoonie.bsky.social
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I know spring has truly arrived in SW Ontario not when the robins arrive, but when that One, Specific, Fat Robin starts hanging out on my porch rail and just death glaring through the window at me.
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Mela Storm
@melastorm.bsky.social
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Oh, hardly fair, Chuck. The American Robin is a beautiful dignified bird.
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Anne Hawley
@annehawley.bsky.social
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BUT: the tweedly-deedly-dee-ingest pretty song.
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Your Honor, pls
@mrmambo.bsky.social
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LIES! American robins in the South are naive, trusting, amiable. Feared only by worms. It's always a pile of their feathers you see that a feral cat made a meal
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Chegou falando que não vai me comer mas eu não pedi
@mbrasil.bsky.social
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Soft round boi
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_borntobemild
@born2bemild.bsky.social
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This looks like a cross between a robin and a road runner!
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SageNatural
@sagenatural.bsky.social
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A pair of the latter teamed up to chase off a Roadrunner in the backyard today.
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Ray Davis
@pseudopodium.bsky.social
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"How hard I found it to fit the name 'robin' to the suburban impostor, the gross fowl, with its untidy dull-red livery and the revolting gusto it showed when consuming long, sad, passive worms!"
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Alexandra Samios
@xanboni.bsky.social
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AR also leaves its juvies in your fenced garden to learn to fly, and attacks you when you foolishly think that you are also allowed in. (True story)
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Peter Yates
@peteryates.bsky.social
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Eurasian robins are full of personality. Every time I do any work in the garden there's one that follows me and inspects every bit of ground I agitate for worms. The more I work the bolder it gets, eventually coming easily within arms' reach. This photo isn't of that robin
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Camis 🏳️🌈☕
@camilads.bsky.social
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American has the typical Disney villain design
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Alena-coffeeandacat
@alenacoffeebaker.bsky.social
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"sky dumpling" is my new favorite thing
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Steve Quick
@stevequick.bsky.social
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Now do red squirrels. British: nursery tale squirrel nutkin. American: murder junkie
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Sinboy
@sinboy.bsky.social
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All the little birds on Jaybird Street Love to hear the robin go skeet skeet skeet
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Patch - Riddle’s Been Solved
@patchsocialism.bsky.social
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After reading the secret garden, my daughter needle felted a pretty good replica of a European robin and I was like: that is not the Robin I know, and that Robin is exceedingly cute. I even googled it to make sure it was accurately cute - it was
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Aliera
@alierakieron.bsky.social
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This is true.
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Avery Rhymes-with-slow-churn
@averycockburn.bsky.social
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Cannot explain why out of all the things you listed, “often wet” made me laugh hardest
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Erin Snyder
@erinlsnyder.bsky.social
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Sir. Dick Grayson would NEVER.
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