This is a video about a robin bathing at a campground near Havelte village in Drenthe province in the Netherlands.
Tjitske Dost made the video.
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What a delight to see the little robin enjoy his self in the water!
Leslie
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His self, or her self … adult male and female robins look the same.
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Our adult females are not as colourful as the males here in Canada. Still fun to see them splash around and enjoy.
Leslie
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Yes, one of the differences between European robins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin
and (bigger) American robins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_robin
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Yes, I kind of thought your robin didn’t look like our robin. Interesting variation on a theme.
Leslie
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Yes, American robins are thrushes (related to European blackbirds etc.) while European robins are probably in the Old World flycatcher family.
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I did not know that.
Leslie
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Yes, there are also birds in Australia called ‘robins’, unrelated to both European and American robins.
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I didn’t know that either!
Leslie
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Australasian ‘robins’ (unrelated, except for all being songbirds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroicidae
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