ROBIN

noun Etymology: akin to Dutch dialect robijntje linnet, Frisian robyntsje Date: 1549 1. a small chiefly European thrush ( Erithacus rubecula ) resembling a warbler and having a brownish-olive back and orangish face and breast, any of various Old World songbirds that are related to or resemble the European ~, a large North American thrush ( Turdus migratorius ) with olivaceous to slate-gray upperparts, blackish head and tail, black and whitish streaked throat, and dull reddish breast and underparts