Meet The Pink Robin, The Little Ball Of Joy So Beautiful, Many Think It's Too Perfect To Be Real (11 pics)

Alliteration aside, the pink robin (Petroica rodinogaster) was named with just a little pre-Victorian chauvinism. It was first so described by a Belgian naturalist Auguste Drapiez in 1819. Yet its nomenclature only describes half the species as the pink robin is sexually dimorphic. While the male does have a pink breast, the female of the species has a rather drab grey-brown plumage. Drapiez decided to call it a robin too, despite the unlikelihood of it being related to the European variety. You can see why.