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American robin Turdus migratorius
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Length: 8.5 inches
Black to dark gray head
Broken eye ring
Dull red breast and belly
White undertail coverts
Gray upperparts
Streaked throat
Thin yellow bill ...
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American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
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American Robin
Spring isn't the same without the American robin. With its impressive worm-hunting skills and entertaining nesting habits, it's definitely one of America's favorite backyard birds.
American Robin ( Turdus migratorius )
American Robin, Deschutes National Forest, Near Fort Rock, Oregon
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Turdus migratorius ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: TURDIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern ...
American Robin
Turdus migratorius
The American Robin (Turdus migratorius) nests across almost all of the United States and Canada. The species withdraws from Canada and much of the northern U.S. during the winter.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Nest building
American Robins pair-bond during the breeding season. Females are primarily responible for building the nest that is made of twigs, mud and lined with dry grass.
American Robin Stories from our Readers
After a rather sad early Spring, when a nesting pair of Crows raided a nearby Robins' nest of their newly hatched young, (which is natural), I had a wonderful experience.
Diet The American robin eats a wide-variety of foods including fruits and berries, worms, grubs and caterpillars. In winter, its diet is made up largely of berries. it is often seen on lawns in the morning looking for earthworms.
American Robin
(Turdus migratorius)
Status: Year-round Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2011
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
Despite its name, the American Robin is more closely related to thrushes than to European Robins; the bird was named by early English settlers for the resemblance of its colouration to the European Robin they left behind.
American Robin
Turdus migratorius Linnaeus
Status Common in summer, uncommon in winter. Breeds.
AMERICAN ROBIN OR MIGRATORY THRUSH.
[American Robin.]
(State Bird of Connecticut, Michigan and Wisconsin)
TURDUS MIGRATORIUS, Linn.
[Turdus migratorius.] ...
The typical habitat of the American Robin is in towns, on lawns, in farmland, open forest and streamsides; in winter they frequent fruit-bearing trees.
3. American Robins
4. Adult Black-crowned Night-heron, windblown
5. Hooded Oriole, female ...
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Robins belong to the family of Thrushes and the order Passeriformes.
Types of Robins include: ...
American Robin Turdus migratorius. Breeder. Common in all seasons in Tennessee Valley and Mountain regions. In Inland Coastal Plain region, common in winter, spring, and fall, and uncommon in summer.
American Robin ... Bluebirds ... Laughing Thrushes ... Mountain Robin ... Robins ... Rock-Thrushes For all others, please scroll down
The Thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World.
American Robin
The American Robin is a widespread songbird with a red-orange chest.
American Tree Sparrow
The American Tree Sparrow is a long-tailed songbird with a red crown.
American Robin
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Sanderling
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The American Robin is 23-28 cm (10-11 in) long, averaging about 77 g (2.7 oz), with a wingspan ranging from 119 to 137 millimeters. In the wild, the longest known lifespan of an American Robin is 14 years, but the average lifespan is about 2 years.
The American Robin inhabits a wide variety of natural and human-modified areas, including forest edges, parks, and suburban towns. The Robin has a conspicuous style of foraging.
The American Robin is a common, widespread songbird that lives across much of North America down to Guatemala. This bird is a type of thrush; it is more closely related to blackbirds than to English robins.
The American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family.
often as part of large mixed-species flocks with other blackbirds: red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), and, less frequently, Euphagus blackbirds and American robins ...
For a creature so small — it’s smaller than an American Robin — the Bluebird, in its bejeweled brilliance, has become an outsized symbol of joy and happiness in American culture. The ex-Beetle Paul McCartney and composer Richard A.
The New Zealand robin and the North American robin look fairly similar to the female European robin, and all these robins are brown in colour.
Among these are the American robin, Turdus migratorius, largest of the thrushes, and the Eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis, bright blue with a red breast.
I'm guessing the original robin was a European Robin and it was applied to our American Robin. I was dubious about it as a kid, there weren't too many barns in our urban Indianapolis neighborhood.
At just under 10 inches in length, it is slightly smaller than an American Robin. Adults have a 15-inch wingspan and weigh only six ounces.
Distinguishing Features - Slightly larger than the American Robin, 28 - 32 cm long. Colouration: olive-brown upperparts and plain, whitish underparts; tail, tipped in white; bill, black, downcurved; reddish eye ring.
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Spring peepers are to the amphibian world what American robins are to the bird world. As their name implies, they begin emitting their familiar sleigh-bell-like chorus right around the beginning of spring.
The strange looking bird in the film "Mary Poppins" which is called a Robin is a model of an American Robin Turdus migratorius, a species never seen on the rooftops of London except in Hollywood's imagination.
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The term Robin is also applied to some birds in other families with red or orange breasts. These include the American Robin (Turdus migratorius), which is a thrush, and the Australian red robins of the genus Petroica, ...
American robin (Turdus migratorius)
Grey-sided thrush (Turdus feae)
Austral thrush (Turdus falcklandii)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
Red-backed thrush (Zoothera erythronota) ...
The bright-red fruits are eaten by a great variety of birds when they ripen in the fall. Scarlet Tanagers, Cedar Waxwings, American Robins, and Eastern Bluebirds are especially fond of the fruits.
Common Redpoll
Blackburnian Warbler
Baltimore Oriole
American Robin (on breast)
American Redstart ...
Wolfe, D. 1994. Brown-headed Cowbirds fledged from Barn Swallow and American Robin nests. Wilson Bulletin, 106: 764-767.
Occurs in a number of areas on campus, usually in more heavily vegetated areas than those used by the similar American Robin, although it is often found in flocks of robins. A few can be found near the Mausoleum in winter.
Known predators include ringneck snakes, common kingsnakes, deer mice, long-tailed weasels, domestic cats, California thrashers, American robins, and loggerhead shrikes.
San Lucas Robin - The San Lucas Robin, like the Baird's Junco, is endemic to the southern mountains of Baja California Sur. It has a much lighter, buff colored, chest than its close relative, the American Robin.
A good example is the common blackbird that is occurs naturally in Europe, Asia, Africa and has been intrioduced into Australia and New Zealand. Another popular true thrush is the American Robin, ...
in Panama is Clay-colored Robin, which is common as dirt and, well, looks like dirt, too (hence the name). The dawn chorus of Clay-colored Robins in Panama City made us feel right at home, since their song is similar to that of the American Robin.
 See also: Robin, Bluebird, Sparrow, Flycatcher, Warbler
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