Robin is what type bird

This site allows users to sign up and participate in recording birds seen on a daily basis as well as the location, for any bird species seen in the world. In addition, users can use the existing data to search out the location of bird species throughout the year. By using filters, information as to the movements can be determined. Photos can be added to identify individual birds. Migration pattern can be calculated using information by months or years as needed. Range maps can be verified, allowing the users to see where the presence of individual bird species are expected to be at certain times of the year.

NA - National Geographic The Society of National Geographic provides some of the best books available for those who have an interest in birds. The book called "The Complete Birds of North America", is a book recommended to be part of any birders library. This book covers all the native and vagrant species of birds seen on the North American Continent. It provides information on all the birds listed on the ABA bird list. This book goes into great details, describing the individual species and their races.

That aside, their website provides wonderful information pertaining to many articles regarding nature. It was initially formed for the preservation of egrets and herons as well as waders, who were being hunted and killed, so their feathers could be used in the clothing industry. Today, there are many chapters of the NAS all over the continent and all individual groups have a common goal, to educate the public.

In doing so, creating awareness of the birds and their plights. They were the driving force in promoting the original international laws, protecting migratory birds. Today, their website has made information available on articles, images and sounds, relating to all the native birds seen in North America.

I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends. Their chestnut flanks don't extend all the way across the belly and breast like an American Robin. Spotted Towhees have white spotting on either an all-black or rich brown back, unlike the robin's unmarked gray back.

The Varied Thrush of the Pacific coast is dark blue-gray above, with a thick dark band across its orange chest. Range View dynamic map of eBird Sightings. Habitat American Robins are common birds across the continent. Food American Robins eat large numbers of both invertebrates and fruit. Behavior When foraging on the ground, the American Robin runs a few steps, then stops abruptly. Nesting Females build the nest from the inside out, pressing dead grass and twigs into a cup shape using the wrist of one wing.

Color Pattern American Robins are gray-brown birds with warm orange underparts and dark heads. Did you know?! Hundreds of thousands of American Robins can gather in a single winter roost. In summer, females sleep on the nests and males congregate in roosts. As young robins become independent, they join the males in the roost. Female adults go to the roosts only after they have finished nesting.

American Robins have an expandable esophagus which they will use to store extra fruit on cold winter nights. Robins can be aggressive when it comes to defending food supplies.

One robin was observed defending a fruiting crab apple tree against 15 Cedar Waxwings! Robins are very territorial birds and will viciously attack other robins that on their patch. A dispute starts with males singing at each other, trying to get a higher perch in order to show off their breast most effectively. This usually ends the challenge, with one individual deferring to the other.

In some populations, up to 10 per cent of adult mortality is due to clashes over territory. Robins eat a wide variety of food, including worms, seeds, nuts, suet, invertebrates and fruit. If the weather is mild, they can breed as early as January, though it is more usual for them to start in March. Robins are prolific breeders, often producing between three and five broods a year, each containing four or five eggs. These broods can overlap, with the male feeding the chicks of one clutch while the female sits on the eggs of the next.

This enables the population to bounce back readily from any overwinter population losses. Robins will nest almost anywhere. Robin nests are usually located about 2m off the ground, within a recess or hollow sheltered by vegetation such as ivy. However, the robin is a particularly adaptable species when it comes to home-building and will also nest on the ground, behind the overhang of a grassy tussock, for instance, or beneath fallen twigs covered by leaf litter.

Over the years monitoring robins and other birds for the BTO Nest Record Scheme, I have come across a number of ground-nesting individuals. Nests must be well concealed to keep their occupants safe from predators, so while we might assume they are less common, it could be that they are just harder to find than those off the ground.

Sometimes, the birds utilise bizarre sites such as old teapots, a pigeonhole in a desk, the engine of a WWII plant, wellington boots and the body of a dead cat. Thankfully, the robin picked a tolerant person who left the nest undisturbed until the chicks fledged.

British robins readily associate with gardeners, but elsewhere in Europe they are shy and retiring birds of thick woodland cover, says Mike Toms from the British Trust for Ornithology BTO.

It may just be because continental robins, the migratory northern populations of which winter around the Mediterranean, have long been exposed to hunting in the southern part of their range, leaving the species particularly skulking in its habits, while in Britain we do not share the tradition of trapping and shooting small birds.