As an old European Christmas story goes, on the cold night when Jesus was born in a Bethlehem stable, Mary cried out that the embers in the stable’s campfire were burning out. Her cries awakened a ...

A European legend has it that on the night Jesus was born in a cold stable, a robin heard Mary's plea to keep the dying embers of a fire from burning out. So the robin flew in and vigorously fanned ...

Red-breasted robins are part of the winter wildlife we know and love. Yet while these charming birds feature heavily in festive imagery, they’re actually around all year – so why do we associate ...

As a self-professed nature nerd, I’ve become accustomed to common names for plants being misleading. Rose of Sharon, for instance, is not a rose but a hibiscus. It follows that names for animals may ...

The European robin, more commonly known as the robin or robin redbreast, is formally classified into the Old World flycatcher family. This small insectivorous passerine is common and widespread ...

Famously dubbed the "gardener's friend", robins will happily shadow us as we dig in our gardens, darting in to snatch up ...

Beneath that jolly red breast hides an edgy temperament: robins are fiercely territorial, making them feisty at best and ...