Feisty little bird...

Photo by Wild Birds/Alamy

The American Robin in Canada is a fairly easy-going bird, gives way to many same-sized birds and never gets into squabbles, except with other robins.   But the European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) a.k.a. Robin Redbreast, or just plain Robin, is quite the opposite.   Stephen Moss, in his new book "The Robin: A Biography" says that tiny robins will get into "very violent territorial disputes" and that they will "occasionally fight to the death".   Not surprising, I suppose, Moss goes on to say that "robins rarely live longer than a year or two".   Pity.
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BarrytheBirder