Editing European robin (section)

=== Breeding ===
Robins may choose a wide variety of sites for building a nest. In fact, anything which can offer some shelter, like a depression or hole, may be considered. As well as the usual crevices, or sheltered banks, other objects include pieces of machinery, barbecues, bicycle handlebars, bristles on upturned brooms, discarded kettles, watering cans, flower pots and hats. Robins will also nest in manmade [[nest box]]es, favouring a design with an open front placed in a sheltered position up to {{convert|2|m}} from the ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/bto-nest-boxes-essential-guide.pdf|title=NEST BOXES : YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE|pages=12–13|website=Bto.org|access-date=19 March 2022}}</ref> Nests are generally composed of moss, leaves and grass, with fine grass, hair and feathers for lining.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Hannah |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/robin-erithacus-rubecula.html |title=Robin (Erithacus rubecula) |website=[[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] |orig-date=Original date 20 December 2019 |date=2024-03-21}}</ref>

Two or three clutches of five or six eggs are laid throughout the breeding season, which commences in March in Britain and Ireland. The eggs are a cream, buff or white speckled or blotched with reddish-brown colour, often more heavily so at the larger end.<ref name=Observerbirdseggs>{{Cite book|title=The Observer's Book of Birds' Eggs|author=Evans, G.|pages=85|year=1972|publisher=Warne|location=London, UK|isbn=978-0-7232-0060-4}}</ref> When juvenile birds fly from the nests, their colouration is entirely mottled brown. After two to three months out of the nest, the juvenile bird grows some orange feathers under its chin, and over a similar period this patch gradually extends to complete the adult appearance of an entirely red-orange breast.<ref name="auto"/>

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