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=== Other robins === The larger [[American robin]] (''Turdus migratorius'') is a much larger bird named from its similar colouration to the European robin, but the two birds are not closely related, with the American robin instead belonging to the [[Turdus|same genus]] as the [[common blackbird]] (''T. merula''), a species which occupies much of the same range as the European robin. The similarity between the European and American robins lies largely in the orange chest patch found in both species. This American species was incorrectly shown "feathering its nest" in London in the film ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'',<ref name=imdb>{{cite web |title=''Mary Poppins'' (1964) - Goofs |website=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/goofs |access-date=21 January 2008}}</ref> but it only occurs in the UK as a very rare vagrant.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Roberts |title=Village braced for invasion of twitchers as rare visitor flies in |newspaper=[[Yorkshire Post]] |url=http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1997214 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508082115/http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55 |archive-date=8 May 2006 |access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref> Some South and Central American ''Turdus'' thrushes are also called robins, such as the [[rufous-collared thrush]]. The Australian "robin redbreast", more correctly the [[scarlet robin]] (''Petroica multicolor''), is more closely related to crows and jays than it is to the European robin. It belongs to the family [[Petroicidae]], whose members are commonly called "Australasian robins". The [[red-billed leiothrix]] (''Leiothrix lutea'') is sometimes named the "Pekin robin" by [[Aviculture|aviculturalists]]. Another group of Old World flycatchers, this time from Africa and Asia, is the genus ''Copsychus''; its members are known as [[magpie-robin]]s, one of which, the [[Oriental magpie robin]] (''C. saularis''), is the national bird of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National icons of Bangladesh |website=Bangla 2000 |url=http://www.bangla2000.com/Bangladesh/national_icons.shtm |access-date=5 August 2010}}</ref>
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