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Welcome to Journey North's 17th season! Join citizen scientists across North America as we track the robin's spring migration. Learn how to watch for robins and how to listen for their first song. What do robins do in the wintertime? Find out from the observations people reported in January.
This Week's Report Includes:
- Report Your Sightings! What, Where & How
- Latest Maps: Where Are Robins Now?
- Journal: Learning from Citizen Scientists
- Links: Robin Resources to Explore
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We are collecting the following observations. Will you help?
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First Robin You See |
The
First Waves of Migrating Robins |
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| The
First Robin You Hear Singing |
Your first sighting of Earthworms |
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Where to Report Click the word "Sightings" on the navigation bar above. |
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It was a cold January! Each time a cold front moved across the continent, people reported hundreds and thousands of robins. Where were the robins and what were they doing? Here's a sample:
- Texas: Hundreds of robins blanketed the neighborhood eating juniper berries. I can't count them because the tree canopy and sky are full of robins.
- Florida: Robins in the hundreds feeding on a red holly berries. The large holly trees (40+ feet tall) were stripped bare of berries by the robins!
- Oklahoma: We received a winter storm of ice and snow three days ago. There are possibly 200 robins in the bare trees, on the ground, and flying everywhere.
Taken together, the observations people made in January provide a good snapshot of robin behavior in the wintertime. What can you learn by reading the observations?
Try this!
- Collect Observation Reports: See Database
- Keep a Robin Migration Journal: See Journal Page and Teaching Suggestions
Thirsty robins shared a drink in Florida. (Enlarge)
Thousands of robins covered the sky in California. (Enlarge)
- Welcome and Orientation: About Journey North's Robin Migration Study
- Journals: Keep a Robin Migration Journal
- Journal Page: Reading Reports from Citizen Scientists
- Journal Page: Reading Robin Migration Updates
- Overview: Making Sense of Robin Migration
- Journal Page : My First Look at a Robin Migration Map
The Next Robin Migration Update Will Be Posted on February 16, 2010.
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