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About the only reasonably common alternative name in English is red-breast.
There are many completely different bird species that are called robins.
The original species to be given the name is the European Robin, which has the Latin name Erithacus rubecula
In North America, there is a kind of thrush called the American Robin. Its Latin name is Turdus migratorius.
Several species in the taxonomic family Petroicidae are called robins. They are native to Australia and New Zealand.
The Red-billed Leiothrix, Latin name Leiothrix lutea, is known as the Pekin Robin in the UK, elsewhere it is known as the Japanese nightinglae, Chinese Robin, or Japanese Hill Robin.
There are many other species throughout Africa and Asia that are called "robin".
All over the world, wherever European man has travelled, he has looked for a friendly small bird that spends lots of time of the ground, even better if it had red/orange on its chest - anything that reminded him of the garden (European) robin. In Japan there is even a bird that is virtually identical to the European robin unless it is examined closely - but it is not particularly closely related - the Japanese robin is luscinia akahige (a very close relative of the nightingale).
There is also the common name of the Robin Redbreast.
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