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11 Jun 15
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Great bird....always look happy !
The robin has topped a poll of more than 200,000 people to choose the UK's first national bird.
Ornithologist David Lindo - who launched the campaign - said the robin was "entwined into our national psyche" as a "Christmas card pin-up".
He now plans to ask the government to officially recognise the robin as the national bird.
The red-breasted bird received 34% of votes, followed by the barn owl, which received 12%, and the blackbird, 11%.
BBC Springwatch presenter Mr Lindo began the project last year, saying Britain should have a national bird like many other countries.
More than 224,000 people voted online, at ballot boxes in schools and by post.
The robin has topped a poll of more than 200,000 people to choose the UK's first national bird.
Ornithologist David Lindo - who launched the campaign - said the robin was "entwined into our national psyche" as a "Christmas card pin-up".
He now plans to ask the government to officially recognise the robin as the national bird.
The red-breasted bird received 34% of votes, followed by the barn owl, which received 12%, and the blackbird, 11%.
BBC Springwatch presenter Mr Lindo began the project last year, saying Britain should have a national bird like many other countries.
More than 224,000 people voted online, at ballot boxes in schools and by post.
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Katie Price for moi ..
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National bird delta not dog.
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The good old Robin. love to see them in my garden.
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I had one on my doorstep only the other day, the door was open and the dog was staring at the critter. I grabbed hold of muttley in case he went for the robin but neither was fazed at all and he just flew away in his own time, lovely birds indeed.
However, if pushed to choose the 'national bird of Great Britain' it would have to be Emma Watson. In fact at the next chit chat a.g.m. I'm going to nominate her as the next official forum sweetheart and I expect plenty of back up. |
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FFS Lads, the Guardian have said we've got it wrong...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/british-national-bird-robin-murderous-bully |
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Love them, have one that comes to the back door for food. They are very British imo, fine red bloom come winter or summer.
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I saw that Guardian headline about the robin and put my head in my hands, it's soooo up guardian, then I read the article (up itself) and comments (more up themselves) from the graudiaista ****s and wished I had a second head to put in my hands as one didn't feel enough.
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Paragraph one of the Guardian piece.
So we’ve chosen a vicious murdering bully for our national bird? It’s bad enough that we probably plumped for our self-important red-breasted friend because the Victorians sentimentalised the robin as a symbol of Christmas. Yet I suspect that the main reason it has been chosen is because it’s the one bird most people can actually recognise. You didn't. They aren't red, they're orange. |
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We know it's orange. But the bird has always been known/ depicted as 'Robin redbreast'
This ' vote' is the biggest time waster. The result is ......' The Robin .....' No shlt Sherlock ! Who would have guessed that ? The Guardian is correct, it got most public votes, because it's the bird most people are aware of. End of. |
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rubbish, how can you possibly decide what other people have thought.
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In this instance, quite easily imo.
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I can understand your basic liberal views, so was the pigeon, magpie and blackbird 2nd,3rd and 4th ?
Robins are not that common, you wont see one everyday like the ones above, maybe the christmas cards helped. |
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Blackbird was third
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or was it a rook
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Did you know that although you see robins all year around the ones you see in winter might have come down from Scandinavia where they spent the summer and the ones you see in Summer might have come up from points further south where they spent the winter?
i.e. they might be different birds altogether! |
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Still Robins though.
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The correct answer is Carol from Essex.
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surprised the hooded craw did not get it tbh
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* crow.
We don't do Scottish dialect   |
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A Young Robin has no red on it, in fact they have brown flecks.
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Correct
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Thought tits would have been more popular.
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But that would be juvenile wouldn't it ?
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Only to you, you sad old man.
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