European robin: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the European robin lives – recorded in 64 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Erithacus rubecula
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	64 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	2.4 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Muscicapidae

Where does the European robin live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the European robin in 64 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa, Poland.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is an European robin?

Wikidata records the following for the European robin: mass 2.4 g (birth weight).

Is the European robin endangered?

The European robin’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the European robin?

The European robin (Erithacus rubecula) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Muscicapidae, genus Erithacus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the European robin

The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird belonging to the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found across Europe, as far east as Western Siberia, and as far south as North Africa. It is sedentary in the west and south of its range, and migratory in the north and east of its range where winters are harsher.

It is 12.5–14.0 cm (4.9–5.5 in) in length. The male and female are identical in plumage, with an orange-toned red breast and face lined with grey, brown upper-parts and a whitish belly. Juveniles are distinct, being freckled brown all over and lacking the red breast. First-winter immatures resemble the adults, except they have more obvious yellow-brown tips to the wing covert feathers, which are inconspicuous or absent in adults.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article European robin (revision 1380748204), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q25334 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).