Migration Update: February 19, 2008 | Please
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Today's Report Includes:
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The Migration: Maps, Questions, Highlights | |||||||||||
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Discover: What's Temperature Got to Do With It? | Lesson! Testing a Temperature Theory >> | ||||||||||
Your observations made us say WOW! Take a look:
What brings the robins? An age-old theory about robin migration says that robins arrive in an area when the average temperature is 36 degree F. Is it accurate? Why not test the theory yourselves? >> |
To test whether robins
seem to travel with average temperatures of 36 degrees, first find out
when robins generally return to your region each spring. Begin the study
about a month before their average arrival date. |
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Journal Question: What would a robin say? | Explore! American Robin Dictionary >> | ||||||||||
"The Robins I heard were giving
the Peek, Tut, and Zeeup calls," reported
an observer this week. Can you translate robin-speak? Dig
into our Robin Dictionary for
help. Then name the call that a robin would use to "say" each
of these things:
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Getting Ready: Can You Name That Tune? | |||||||||||
Song
is the sign we're looking for. "I
heard him before I saw him. It was a male, at the top of a holly tree,
singing
his
heart
out! (Definitely
singing the territorial robin song.)" So far, only a few robins have begun to sing. Get ready so you can be as certain as this observer! Our sound recordings help you recognize six common vocalizations robins make. Then listen again to the same calls in scrambled order and see if you can…
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Links: More Robin Resources to Explore | |||||||||||
More
Robin Lessons and Teaching
Ideas! |
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The Next American Robin Migration Update Will Be Posted on *March 4, 2008 (*data only).
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