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European robin

Erithacus rubecula · Family Muscicapidae

Erithacus rubecula

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
10,946,864
Countries and territories with records
97
European robin
Francis C. Franklin · Erithacus rubecula with cocked head.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Francis C. Franklin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart · Erithacus_rubecula_-_European_Robin_XC559972.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 10,946,864 occurrence records from 97 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (15.9%), the United Kingdom (13.9%), France (13.9%), Spain (10.5%) and the Netherlands (9.5%); together they account for 63.7% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 1.7% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Erithacus rubecula combines the genus name Erithacus with the species epithet rubecula. It is the only species of the genus Erithacus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 93.5 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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