It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave.
Some others I’ve noticed on the east coast of the US are blue jays and cardinals. Boy, do people get excited about those if they’ve never seen them before! Very pretty birds of course, just very easy to get used to and see as uninteresting as well.
Had an american who loved our robin redbreasts
Really? Where I’m from in the states there are robins fucking everywhere
American Robins are not the same as European Robins.
American Robins were named so because they vaguely reminded British settlers of their robins “from home”.
Same with the swallows. Quite different between European and African.
African Swallows are non migrate-ory
I am aware of the two different species. I never noticed a stark difference between the tone of red/orange between the two.
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