It has long been known that humans bestow their own names upon birds. The American Robin calls itself the Cheerily-Yeek, for instance. But they had long known of the human name for them, and sought to correct the misconception that their distant cousins the European Robins were their close kin. So the robins made sure to sing their name loudly, close to humans, so that they might be educated and call them by their proper appellation.

Instead, their song became so ubiquitous, so well known, that in the minds of many humans, they eclipsed their distant cousins and became the only robins in the world. This understandably, was a great disappointment to the European Robins, who as proud tyrant flycatchers did not enjoy sharing their name with any other.

Eventually, the robins–or is that the Cheerily-Yeek?–decided that they would grudgingly accept the name for humans only, out of gratefulness for the humans bearing with Soft Worms to the soil of their lands.