robin redbreast
Familiar garden bird
Robin redbreast is an affectionate or literary name for a robin, emphasizing the bird's distinctive reddish-orange breast feathers.
The term appears most often in children's rhymes, folk songs, and older literature: Who killed Cock Robin? I, said the Sparrow, with my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.
In everyday speech, most people simply say robin.
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