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2 unusual facts about Scarlet Robin


Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

This growing split between members' attitudes to bird-study came to a head at the 1935 campout at Marlo, eastern Victoria, when a museum ornithologist, George Mack, provocatively shot a Scarlet Robin at its nest, which had been under observation by the party.

Scarlet Robin

The Scarlet Robin is a territorial and monogamous species, and defends its nesting territories both from others of the same species and pairs of the related Flame Robin.


Pacific Robin

It is similar in plumage to the Scarlet Robin of Australia, and until recently the two were considered conspecific until split in 1999 by Schodde and Mason.


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