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The Robin, the quintessential resident English bird

So friendly, so sweet, and a friend all the year round

He will sing all through the night it’s a wondrous sound to be heard

And in wintertime his cousins from Scandinavia and Europe

Make up his merry band.

Little Robin red breast is a Christmas friend

As he makes his visit to our gardens to enjoy his Christmas treats

Fighting the blue tits and chasing the Dunnocks out of the garden, for sunflower hearts.

Robins are territorial all year round; during the spring and summer this territory is for breeding, but

at other times individual robins hold territories for feeding.

Robins will defend their territories to the death.