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Tuesday, February 4. 2014

Winter Robins

The American Robin is semi-migratory (populations edge southwards), and can be found almost anywhere in the US in wintertime. Here, our winter Robins are probably Canucks, while our local summer breeders are probably in South Carolina.


In the northern US, they live on old berries and fruits in the winter, usually foraging in flocks. Sometimes they get drunk on fermented rotten fruit. They do not eat bird seed.


This pic was from a reader a while back, taken, as I recall, in Lenox, MA:


Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 19:00 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Saw about a dozen this weekend in the backyard trees down here in Tampa. Nice birds, even got the binoculars out to look at 'em.
#1 grant1863 on 2011-02-08 16:56 (Reply)
The Robin: Harbinger of Spring

It isn't just rotten fruit that makes them drunk. They get seriously loopy from eating Pyracantha berries, turning themselves into feather-coated Kamikaze pilots. Both houses I grew up in had massive Pyracantha bushes. I spent my childhood knowing window repair guys by their first name.
#2 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-02-09 06:18 (Reply)
We have large flocks of Turdus this winter; seems they are not migratorious. I have heard that they are mostly young males; clubbed up in colors--gangstuh avians. Birds of a feather flock together; 'tis true.
#3 tennesseered on 2014-02-04 21:59 (Reply)
Yep we've got your robins here in South Carolina. According to my mother, approximately all of them are in her backyard.
#4 T.K. Tortch on 2014-02-05 11:11 (Reply)

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