The term means “stupid,” which is how early European colonists may have characterized these clumsy and unwary birds when they saw them on land—their least graceful environment.

A photo shows a European Robin ... images of a European Robin in the Yingze Park in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, marking the first recorded sighting of the rare bird species in the province, Shanxi ...

For example, the European robin is Erithacus rubecula. It is much smaller than the American robin, Turdus migratorius, which belongs to a different genus. The grouping of families was added to ...