American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Description: The American Robin has a large round body, with long legs, and a fairly long tail. Their backs are generally grey, and their bellies are a soft orange color, with dark brown heads. Males are generally larger than the female, who is usually apler in coloration than the male.
Habitat: American Robins can literally live anywhere across North America. They live in both grassy as well as wooded areas. They are often found in large numbers in parks and residential backyards. They can be found as south as the Amazon, and as north as the tundra. Robin numbers often spike unproportionally in certain areas due to their ability to adapt to all environments and reproduce quickly after logging incidents or forest fires.
Diet: The diet of an American Robin consists of a large amount of insects, earthworms, and fruit. They eat a large amount of earthworms, but also eat most any insect they encounter. They will eat chokecherries, hawthorn, sumac fruits, and juniper berries. On extremely rare occasions they will be found eating shrews or small snakes.
Behaviors:
Miscellaneous:
Habitat: American Robins can literally live anywhere across North America. They live in both grassy as well as wooded areas. They are often found in large numbers in parks and residential backyards. They can be found as south as the Amazon, and as north as the tundra. Robin numbers often spike unproportionally in certain areas due to their ability to adapt to all environments and reproduce quickly after logging incidents or forest fires.
Diet: The diet of an American Robin consists of a large amount of insects, earthworms, and fruit. They eat a large amount of earthworms, but also eat most any insect they encounter. They will eat chokecherries, hawthorn, sumac fruits, and juniper berries. On extremely rare occasions they will be found eating shrews or small snakes.
Behaviors:
- When courting mates Robins will generally stand erect with their beaks tilted upward, and then hop around occasionally touching beaks with their partner
- In the fall and winter they are known to form flocks of over 40 birds and feed and roost in trees
- Often when hovering out of trees to land they will slow themselves by flicking their tail downward to create air-resistance
Miscellaneous:
- Males have a sing-songy voice which most people can identify
- The American Robin is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin
- The American Robin is the national bird of Great Brittan
- In 1986 the American Robin was depicted on the $2 note of Canada
- 60% of a robin's diet is fruit and berries
- Robins can lay eggs on three separate occasions in a single year, laying three of four eggs at a time