Ah teh Yanks, wha? Maybe we need to resurrect the casual anti-Americanism thread
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American Robins are very different to be fair.
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How the Robin Got its Name
Written by Bob Sundstrom
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Behind every bird name there is a story - and often a unique bit of history.
[American Robin song and whinny]
Consider our familiar American Robin, which lives throughout much of North America but is not found in Europe. When English settlers in the New World encountered this new bird, they saw in it a reflection of the bird they knew as the Robin – or Robin Redbreast – of the old country. So they called this one a Robin, too. The Robin of the British Isles [song of the European Robin] is a tiny bird with an orange face and upper breast, and only a distant relative of our much larger American Robin.
And there were more “robins” to come. One writer remarked: “Wherever the English have settled they have tended to bestow the name Robin on any bird with a noticeable amount of red or russet in the plumage.”(1) On this continent alone, bluebirds (which have some orange on the breast) were called Robin by the British, towhees were Ground Robins, and the Baltimore Oriole was called the Golden Robin.
Today the American and British Ornithological Unions work together to determine, among other things, how a given bird got its name.
Both birds. Both red breasted. Both small????
They look incredibly different!
yeah yeah, both birds. Both red breasted. Both small.I had to to check
American is thrush family
European is chat family.
Bet they enjoy listening to The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, the Exploited, and Supergrass, who all sound the same as white guys with guitars from the UK.Check out this cool northern blackbird witha northern parrot and a spaniel behind it.
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Is this the first time ever that Julie Burchill has apologized?
Is this the first time ever that Julie Burchill has apologized?
A quick glance at Ash Sarkar's twitter feed will show you the type of abuse she gets on a daily basis. No way Burchill wouldn't have known that when she chose to have a go at her about her faith...
"Although it was not my intention" LOL good one“I will not repeat the allegations I just repeated in the first paragraph.”
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