Birds Britannia

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Stephen Moss. Birds Britannia

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BRITANNIA

STEPHEN MOSS

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No other British bird inspires quite the same affection as the Robin. Indeed the name itself is actually a nickname – just as our ancestors referred to the ‘Jenny Wren’ and ‘Tom Tit’, so the bird officially known as the ‘Redbreast’ acquired the prefix ‘Robin Redbreast’. Gradually the second part of this was dropped, and today we use only the nickname for this familiar little bird.

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