American Robin
(Turdus migratorius)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy
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Description |
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Size |
9″ to 11″in length 17″ wingspan |
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Habitat |
Residential lawns and gardens, urban parks, pastures, fragmented forests |
Ecology |
Migration |
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Distribution |
Occurrence |
Abundant |
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Taxonomy |
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Aves (birds) |
Order |
Passeriformes (perching birds) |
Family |
Turdidae (thrushes) |
Genus |
Turdus (typical thrushes) |
Subordinate Taxa |
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Eastern Robin (Turdus migratorius migratorius) Mexican Robin (Turdus migratorius phillipsi) Newfoundland Robin (Turdus migratorius nigrideus) Northwestern Robin (Turdus migratorius caurinus) San Lucas Robin (Turdus migratorius confinis) Southern Robin (Turdus migratorius achrusterus) Western Robin (Turdus migratorius propinquus) |
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Robin's Eggs |
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Bill Reynolds |
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American Robin chick hatched out in one of my old sheds |
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American Robin (Muscicapidae: Turdus migratorius) Male Singing |
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Uploaded on Apr 10, 2010 Sweet singing robin, Spring's eventide melody, not cacophony. Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (10 April 2010). |
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Uploaded on Feb 17, 2010 Video of American Robins running around my back yard, as they do most evenings, looking for dinner. |
Male American Robin early Spring |
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Published on Mar 31, 2013 3/30/13 |
American Robin (Muscicapidae: Turdus migratorius) Juvenile |
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Uploaded on Jul 1, 2009 Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (01 July 2009). "A bird came down the walk: / He did not know I saw; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw." --Emily Dickinson |
American Robin in Somerset, MA - March 1, 2012 |
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Published on Mar 29, 2012 American Robin (Turdus migratorius), Somerset, Massachusetts, Monday morning, March 1, 2012, 7:47 PM - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS MVI_45945; 46 sec. |
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Gregory Gilman |
Location: Rochester, MN |
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| Kim Harcey 6/19/2020 |
Location: Cambridge, MN |
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| Fr Jason Houck 3/19/2020 |
Location: Minnetonka saw our first American Robin today in Minnetonka |
Gregory Gilman |
Location: NW Rochester |
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| Gregory Gilman 1/1/2011 |
Location: Rochester, MN |
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| Bill Reynolds 5/28/2010 |
Location: Pennington Co. American Robin chick hatched out in one of my old sheds |
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