Male European robins sing all year round ... He immediately begins singing the song that had been reserved for the dominant bird. The female sings her part and the two begin to form a new pair ...

Both the male and female American robin are gray-brown birds with yellow bills and reddish ... You'll often hear robins singing in the early morning. American robins frequently show up in yards ...

I have this lovely robin in my garden at the moment. It sings – though quite plaintively. There is no other robin coming in that I can see. D Coleman, Dublin Robins, both male and female ...

But can you tell a robin ... UK most of the singing is done by male birds (unlike in the tropics where the females do much more) and they do so for two reasons - to impress the female birds ...