Robin

Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)

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This European species is expanding eastward along the southern part of the forest zone. The Robin has been recorded several times in Central Siberia in recent years. On July 27, 1968, a male was collected 940 km upstream from the mouth of the Ket' River — thus already within the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Moskvitin et al. 1977). Yu.P. Shaparev reported discovering a vagrant Robin in the lower part of the Angara River (Shaparev 1974). Some records of vagrants are known from the Yenisey mid taiga region: on May 27, 1980, one bird was observed in Mirnoye (62°15' N), and two further birds were caught in mist nets in willows on the east side of the Yenisey River near Alinskoye (63°20' N) on June 14 and 20 of the same year (Anzigitova and Kuznetsov 1988). One of the birds was ringed; the other died and was sent to the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. In the summer of 1985, A.V. Ladygin came across a Robin in Evenkian mid taiga in the basin of the Chunya River (61°20' N).

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