H.J. Ruiz – Avian101

• American Robins are fairly large songbirds with a large, round body, long legs, and fairly long tail. Robins are the largest North American thrushes, and their profile offers a good chance to learn the basic shape of most thrushes. Robins make a good reference point for comparing the size and shape of other birds, too.
• Color Pattern
  American Robins are gray-brown birds with warm orange underparts and dark heads. In flight, a white patch on the lower belly and under the tail can be conspicuous. Compared with males, females have paler heads that contrast less with the gray back.
• Behavior
  American Robins are industrious and authoritarian birds that bound across lawns or stand erect, beak tilted upward, to survey their environs. When alighting they habitually flick their tails downward several times. In fall and winter they form large flocks and gather in trees to roost or eat berries.
• Habitat
  American Robins are common across the continent in gardens, parks, yards, golf courses, fields, pastures, tundra, as well as deciduous woodlands, pine forests, shrublands, and forests regenerating after fires or logging.

Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure to photograph and make an addition to my list of species, birds that visit my backyard: An American Robin. He was hopping around looking for worms or bugs. I saw him flying around too. It wasn’t the first time I shot pictures of a robin, but it was in New York.

A. Robin

A. Robin

American Robin