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From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:48:24 -0800
Tuesday, March 09, 2004

8:45 AM



Twitchers watch robin served rare



Sparrow hawks hunt insects, mammals, birds and reptiles

Birdwatchers from all over Britain who gathered in Grimsby to catch sight o=
f
a rare American robin were horrified to see her eaten by a passing
sparrowhawk.

They were still setting up their cameras when the predator swooped down fro=
m
a row of drab factories and warehouses on an industrial estate.

The young bird, from the southern US, "didn't really live to enjoy her
moment of fame," a twitcher told the Guardian.

The robin's vivid red breast made her an obvious candidate for a lunch date=
.


"It was a terrible moment," Graham Appleton, of the British Trust for
Ornithology, which had spread news of the bird's arrival, told the
newspaper.

Long-distance travels

But the trust's migration watch organiser Dawn Balmer was more
philosophical.



AMERICAN ROBIN

Scientific name: Turdus migratorius

Average size: 21.5 cm

Lives: Southern, central and eastern US

Eats: Insects, fruit, worms

"Most of these rare visitors eventually succumb anyway to cold weather or a
lack of food, if not predation," she told the paper.

The robin, whose scientific name Turdus migratorius derives from its
long-distance travels within America was probably blown across the Atlantic
after being "caught up in a jetstream", Mr Appleton added.

A member of the thrush family, with oily-black wings and tail, American
robin are as big as British blackbirds.



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