What do robins eat in the wintertime?
Over 165 people reported large waves of robins during the past two weeks.
Many people saw what the robins were eating. Based on these actual observations,
what do robins eat?
- Like a hungry robin, take a scavenger hunt and look for some of the robin's favorite foods.
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Read this week's robin sightings and record your thoughts.
| Observation Reports from Citizen Scientists | |
| New Jersey: I observed about 20 healthy and fluffy robins hopping among the branches of my crabapple tree, eating the dried crabapples. | Virginia: I've been witnessing large groups of Robins for several weeks, now. They are eating berries from the neighbor's holly tree. |
| Kentucky: Thousands of robins swarmed the neighborhood and they demolished holly bushes. They were swarming everywhere. People in the neighborhood where all running outside to see what was going on. It was like nothing they have ever seen before. | Florida: The robins arrived last week to feed on the cherry laurel berries. There could be a couple of hundred here at one time. This is only the second time in 10 years of living here that I have seen this many robins at one time. |
| New Jersey: I saw many, many fat, healthy looking, robins flying all over the backyard eating tiny berries from our juniper bushes. The food lasted a few hours and then the robins were all gone. | Florida: I saw a migrating flock feeding on camphor berries. They arrived in a continous surge. |
| Maryland: With two feet of snow on the ground and more snow predicted, there was a large flock of robins in the neighbors crabapple tree today | Look for more examples of food robins eat in the wintertime!
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