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American Robin (Turdus migrators). The faded color of her feathers indicates this is a female Robin. Am I right?
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This American Robin pulled a clump of moss from a branch to take back for nest building, Clark Co, WA, 4 June 2021.
There are birds all over the world named after European birds that are not related to them. For example, the American Robin is a thrush and more closely related the European Blackbird. The blackbirds here in the Americas are icterids, a New World family. We in the US call vultures buzzards, but buzzards in Europe are hawks (buteos). In Australia, the Australian Magpie is not a corvid. I'm pretty sure that this type of overgeneralization of common names is found in other fields. Thank goodness scientists keep them straight!
The adage that “the early bird gets the worm” is often applied to the American Robin, and as this photo shows that saying holds wisdom. This adult was feeing young, including the one in this photo www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/53103746745/in... , near Avonlea in southcentral Saskatchewan, Canada.
American Robin.
9 to 11 inches in length. Gray above and brick red below. In males, the head and tail is black while females are dull gray. Young birds are spotted below.
Inhabits towns, gardens, opeen woodlands and agricultural land.
They range from Alaska east across North America to Newfoundland and south to California, Texas, Arkansas and South Carolina. They winter north to British Columbia and Newfoundland.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
American robin (Turdus migratorius). With all this rain and cold weather we have been having, this one is just trying to keep dry and warm.
American Robin.
9 to 11 inches in length. Gray above and brick red below. In males, the head and tail is black while females are dull gray. Young birds are spotted below.
Inhabits towns, gardens, opeen woodlands and agricultural land.
They range from Alaska east across North America to Newfoundland and south to California, Texas, Arkansas and South Carolina. They winter north to British Columbia and Newfoundland.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Next to the two cottonwood trees (yesterday's post) is a crabapple tree, and the robins were feasting. Like us humans, they were surprised by the early winter storm. I was able to stand in my neighbour's front yard and shoot freely as they foraged among the frosted branches in terrific morning light. An hour flew by. I was reminded that the photo ops don't cease with the arrival of winter.
A split second after I got this shot, the robin launched off its branch. I was too close, and clipped its head; otherwise it was a great shot. I kid you not.
Too close? Yes there is such a thing. As all wildlife photographers know, we miss a lot of good ones by incorrectly anticipating what will happen next. The answer is simply to keep shooting, shooting, shooting. Trash the misses, keep the hits.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
American Robin.
9 to 11 inches in length. Gray above and brick red below. In males, the head and tail is black while females are dull gray. Young birds are spotted below.
Inhabits towns, gardens, opeen woodlands and agricultural land.
They range from Alaska east across North America to Newfoundland and south to California, Texas, Arkansas and South Carolina. They winter north to British Columbia and Newfoundland.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
American Robin.
9 to 11 inches in length. Gray above and brick red below. In males, the head and tail is black while females are dull gray. Young birds are spotted below.
Inhabits towns, gardens, opeen woodlands and agricultural land.
They range from Alaska east across North America to Newfoundland and south to California, Texas, Arkansas and South Carolina. They winter north to British Columbia and Newfoundland.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
While many of this area's robins migrate some stay and live on berries through the winter.
Oakville, Ontario
This American Robin (Turdus migratorius) built her nest on a horizontal log on our covered deck, well protected from the elements. She laid her eggs in mid-June and began sitting on the nest on June 14. The babies hatched exactly two weeks later. We tried to stay off the deck as much as possible and I was able to watch this little miracle unfold through a hallway window without causing any disturbance. A few times, when mom was away from the nest, I climbed a ladder to have a peek inside. Only one of the four eggs didn't hatch and mom had her work cut out for her, feeding the brood.
This photo was taken on the last day the chicks were in the nest. I placed our 8-foot ladder about ten feet away and used my 150-600mm lens to capture a series of feeding time portraits. Mom had just fed this hungry youngster a rather large grasshopper but it was quite insistent that it wanted more. After a few seconds perched on the edge of the nest, looking around, mom took one more look down her chick's throat and seemed to be thinking, "Didn't I just put something in there??"
The next day the babies fledged successfully.
Taken near Cranbrook, East Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.
On our bird bath, this American Robin (Turdus migratorius) came in for a quick drink and then was gone again!
American Robins like to start at the top and work their way down, because when looking at this tree, the upper branches have been stripped of the orange berries in Surrey BC Canada
A little way down our street there is a number of Hawthorne trees, which are full of berries! They have been frozen, but are now thawing out. This has attracted a flock of American Robins (Turdus migratorius) like these two. The female is on the right. We counted about 30 birds. They were eating berries and drinking water from the stream along the curb!
A beautiful unique Robin with leucism.
Leucism is a condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—which causes white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes.
From: Wikipedia
The American Robin is an abundant species through most of North America…this image of a young bird underscores the adaptability of the species. This individual was foraging with many other adults and young among drift logs on a sandy beach at sea level in Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. As just two examples, locations where I have seen American Robins nesting are in a suburban setting in Calgary, Alberta (a city of over one million people) and in an upper subalpine meadow in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) photographed in the backyard feeding on earth worms. City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
I don't usually bother to photograph our most common birds but this individual posed so nicely that I could not resist.
Near Bronte Creek in Oakville, Ontario
The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast.
Surrey BC Canada
American Robin.
9 to 11 inches in length. Gray above and brick red below. In males, the head and tail is black while females are dull gray. Young birds are spotted below.
Inhabits towns, gardens, opeen woodlands and agricultural land.
They range from Alaska east across North America to Newfoundland and south to California, Texas, Arkansas and South Carolina. They winter north to British Columbis and Newfoundland.
Crosswinds Marsh, Wayne County, Michigan.