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Mon premier de la nouvelle saison!
Parc de la rivière Godefroy, Bécancour, Centre-du-Québec, Québec, Canada.
Note how much paler this bird's plumage is than the feathers of the mature robins in this series. This bird was born over the summer of 2022 and is still a juvenile.
It and the others of its tribe as well as other species of birds swooped in at the exact moment the tree's berries were at their peak nutritional appeal and ate literally them all. They were tanking up in preparation for migration. A month later, at the time of this posting, nearly all the robins have left the pop stand, but they'll be among the first, and most welcome, harbingers of spring
...feeding on Hawthorn tree haws.
The American Robin ranges across almost the entire North American continent from the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada to as far south as southern Mexico. Normally migrates from most of Canada in winter, but winters regularly from southern Alaska, portions of southern most Canada and the north - central United States south throughout the continental United States, as well as large areas of northern Mexico, and the western Caribbean.
Habitat is just about everywhere across the entire continent. Gardens, parks, yards, golf courses, fields, pastures, tundra, as well as deciduous woodlands, pine forests, shrublands, and forests regenerating after fires or logging. During winter many Robins move to moist woods where berry-producing trees and shrubs are common.
American Robins eat large numbers of both invertebrates and fruit. Particularly in spring and summer they eat large numbers of earthworms as well as insects and some snails. (They have rarely been recorded eating shrews, small snakes, and aquatic insects.) Robins also eat an enormous variety of fruits, including chokecherries, hawthorn, dogwood, and sumac fruits, and juniper berries. Especially during Fall and winter. Estimates put plant matter between 60 - 75% of the Robin's diet. When they eat honeysuckle berries exclusively, they sometimes become intoxicated.
The American Robin can produce three successful broods in one year. On average, though, only 40 percent of nests successfully produce young. Only 25 percent of those fledged young survive to November. From that point on, about half of the Robins alive in any year will make it to the next. Despite the fact that a lucky Robin can live to be 14 years old, the entire population turns over on average every six years.
ISO800, aperture f/6.3, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 420mm
It took only 13 days from hatching until our Robin hatchlings were ready to leave the nest! Three of the four flew from home on day 13 and this "runt of the litter" waited another day. Interesting stuff about young Robins:
June 2013
Included in the gallery "Avecillas y Aves" by luisma:
www.flickr.com/photos/el_de_pucela/galleries/721576332003...
The Robins are back but they are not eating the berries. I guess we need a frost or two to soften them.
...note lighter colored breast than the male with some streaking, and more white in the belly area.
The American Robin ranges across almost the entire North American continent from the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada to as far south as southern Mexico. Normally migrates from most of Canada in winter, but winters regularly from southern Alaska, portions of southern most Canada and the north - central United States south throughout the continental United States, as well as large areas of northern Mexico, and the western Caribbean.
Habitat is just about everywhere across the entire continent. Gardens, parks, yards, golf courses, fields, pastures, tundra, as well as deciduous woodlands, pine forests, shrublands, and forests regenerating after fires or logging. During winter many Robins move to moist woods where berry-producing trees and shrubs are common.
American Robins eat large numbers of both invertebrates and fruit. Particularly in spring and summer they eat large numbers of earthworms as well as insects and some snails. (They have rarely been recorded eating shrews, small snakes, and aquatic insects.) Robins also eat an enormous variety of fruits, including chokecherries, hawthorn, dogwood, and sumac fruits, and juniper berries. Especially during Fall and winter. Estimates put plant matter between 60 - 75% of the Robin's diet. When they eat honeysuckle berries exclusively, they sometimes become intoxicated.
The American Robin can produce three successful broods in one year. On average, though, only 40 percent of nests successfully produce young. Only 25 percent of those fledged young survive to November. From that point on, about half of the Robins alive in any year will make it to the next. Despite the fact that a lucky Robin can live to be 14 years old, the entire population turns over on average every six years.
ISO800, aperture f/5.6, exposure .003 seconds (1/320) focal length 450mm
The white thing in the beak of this American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a fecal sac. The poop that these nestlings produce has a coating to make for easy disposal. So far my observation is that the adults eat them. The sac material presumably has nutritional value. Photographed from our living room on the 5th floor in Oakville, Ontario.
The light was perfect when she decided to pose outside my window. She is almost done with her summer molt.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Garland, Texas
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This photograph of An American Robin (Turdus migratorius), was taken at an altitude of Seven hundred and two metres, at 10:26am on Thursday 12th May 2016 off Robert Campbell Highway 4 and Alaska Highway 1 at what has come to be known as 'Sign Post Forest', in the town of Watson Lake, Yukon.
'Sign post forest', is an extensive collection of signs that was started in 1942 by a homesick American G.I named Private Carl K. Lindley of the 341st Engineers, who erected a signpost for his hometown of Danville, Illinois, whilst recovering from injury. Visitors from around the world have subsequently added their own signs and the total is now in excess of 100,000, making it one of the most visited and famous landmarks along the Alaska Highway.
Nikon D800 500mm 1/160s f/5.6 iso100 RAW (14Bit) Hand held. Nikon back focus button enabled. AF-C Continuous point focus with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.Nikon AF Fine tune on (+10).
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2020 Photograph, American Robin Sitting on Nest (Turdus migratorius, Thrush Family Turdidae), Fairfax, Virginia, © 2020.
To some, these birds are the first sign of spring. Whether along the sides of roads or on fence-posts, Robins are a common sight in Iowa.
Low angle shot of the same American Robin as the last shot (this one actually taken first), with a view of Mt. St. Helens as the backdrop as seen from Portland's Counci Crest park.
July 2, 2014 in Gallup Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dutch: roodborstlijster; scientific: Turdus migratorius.
Adult male American Robin with freshly-caught worm in bill. This bird probably has nestlings that need feeding. Note the broken white eye ring, the white malar stripe, and the white spot at the bend of the wing.
The American Robin is a medium size bird at 9.1 - 11.0 inches (23 - 28 cm) in length with a wingspan ranging from 12 - 16 inches ( 31 - 41 cm ). The head varies from jet black to gray, with white eye arcs and a white "eyebrow". The throat is white with black streaks, and the belly and under-tail coverts are white. It has a brown back and a reddish-orange breast, varying from a rich red maroon to peachy orange. The bill is mainly yellow with a variably dark tip, the dusky area becoming more extensive in winter, and the legs and feet are brown. The sexes are similar, but females tend to be duller than the male, with a brown tint to the head, brown upperparts and less bright underparts with more white in the breast feathers and the belly area.
The American Robin ranges across almost the entire North American continent from the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada to as far south as southern Mexico. Normally migrates from most of Canada in winter, but winters regularly from southern Alaska, portions of southern most Canada and the north - central United States south throughout the continental United States, as well as large areas of northern Mexico, and the western Caribbean.
Habitat is just about everywhere across the entire continent. Gardens, parks, yards, golf courses, fields, pastures, tundra, as well as deciduous woodlands, pine forests, shrublands, and forests regenerating after fires or logging. During winter many Robins move to moist woods where berry-producing trees and shrubs are common.
American Robins eat large numbers of both invertebrates and fruit. Particularly in spring and summer they eat large numbers of earthworms as well as insects and some snails. They have rarely been recorded eating shrews, small snakes, and aquatic insects. Robins also eat an enormous variety of fruits, including chokecherries, hawthorn, dogwood, and sumac fruits, and juniper berries. Especially during Fall and winter. Estimates put plant matter between 60 - 75% of the Robin's diet. When they eat honeysuckle berries exclusively, they sometimes become intoxicated.
The American Robin can produce three successful broods in one year. On average, though, only 40 percent of nests successfully produce young. Only 25 percent of those fledged young survive to November. From that point on, about half of the Robins alive in any year will make it to the next. Despite the fact that a lucky Robin can live to be 14 years old, the entire population turns over on average every six years.
ISO800, aperture f/5.6, exposure .006 seconds (1/160) focal length 420mm
This is the nest of the American Robin, Turdus migratorius. It is nicely woven from dry grass with mud reinforcement.
A clutch of four eggs is typical for robins. Estimates of the survival rate for chicks show they face a tough struggle to reach adulthood. Please see this article from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for more on that subject.
This nest is on a support beam under our deck. There is insufficient space above the nest to insert a camera, so I held a "special" mirror that I keep for just such photos at an angle on the opposite side of the nest from the camera and my wife, Leona, snapped a photo of the mirror. The in-focus nest and eggs are in the mirror image and the out-of-focus bit at the bottom of the photo is a direct image of part of the nest.
We used a new Canon EOS RP mirrorless camera with a Tamron 28-300mm zoom lens. Illumination was from a Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite with a Gary Fong diffuser.
It required more time to describe the making of this photo than it did to make it; we watched the nest from afar to ensure that the parent that is brooding the eggs had gone off to have a meal of insects, then we moved in, made the photo in a few seconds, and quickly left the scene.
Photography by Leona and David Illig.
This Robin has been perching in this tree pretty much all winter and chases any interloper away from what he considers his property with some pretty fierce tussling on the ground in an angry ball of furious fluff!! American Robins (Turdus migratorius) are members of the Thrush family and are not related to the English Robin. They are one of the prettiest singers of the song birds. They may follow gardeners around hoping for upturned worms. Robins are about 10 inches long.