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adult robins appeared average aviary bird behaviour Bird Ringing bird song bird's blackbird blue tit breeding season Brit British Birds British robins Burkitt captive robins cent chaffinch Chapter clutch cock robin coition colour common redstart courtship courtship-feeding crested grebe cuckoo Dartington dunnock eggs Eliot Howard Enniskillen experiments external situation feeding female fierce fighting fledgling found dead further gardens ground hatched hen robin Hence human incubation inherited insects instinct intruding robin later leave the nest male robin mate mealworms migrate migratory nestling robins normally noted observed occasionally occur ornithologist owner pair of robins pair-formation parent robins perched records red breast feathers redstart Robin attacking robin song robin's nest robins sing similar song song-birds song-sparrow species spring stuffed robin stuffed specimen survival territorial behaviour threat display trap trespassing unmated cock usually W. H. Davies warbler wild robins winter woods Wytham young robins Zool