robin
Other forms: robins
The sweet-sounding, red-chested birds that symbolize the beginning of spring are robins.
There are actually many different birds called robins, and while most share a reddish-orange breast, they're actually distantly related to each other. In the U.S., the bird we think of as a robin is officially the American robin, a kind of thrush. It's the most common land bird in North America, and it's famous for laying eggs very early in the spring — and singing at the crack of dawn. The robin's most deadly predator is the domesticated cat.
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small Old World songbird with a reddish breastsynonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, redbreast, robin redbreasttype of:thrushsongbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
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large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomensynonyms: American robin, Turdus migratoriustype of:thrushsongbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
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