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This Week's Update Includes:
- News: What's Happening Now & What to Watch For
- Slideshow: Will a Robin Choose Your Neighborhood?
- Research: What Do Robins Notice?
- Latest Maps & Journal: Where Are Robins Now?
- Report Your Sightings: What, Where & How
Spring appears to be on "fast forward" this year. Robins pushed north into Canada as an early heat wave continued. This week robins sang from Saskatchewan to New Brunswick. A college student in Saskatchewan (50.28N, -107.80W) wrote on March 25: "I'm minding my own business and just couldn't ignore this Robin singing while perched on a tall tree. I think he's trying to tell us that Spring has arrived!" Females are arriving in other places further south.
- Alberta, March 23: Half a dozen robins were seen standing in a light covering of snow on grass which has yet to change from its winter brown colour.
- Nova Scotia, March 23: Five Robins merrily seeking worms and hopping along from yard to yard. The temperature was 25 degrees Celsius.
- New York, March 21: The female robins are here. I just saw a male and female robin foraging in my yard together. Males do not tolerate each other anymore. Singing is reaching full intensity.
Signs
of nesting:
Where females have begun to arrive, nesting is next:
- Ohio, March 23: Saw a female robin with grass in her beak. Male and female were starting to build a nest on our downspout, the same place as last year.
So, if you see a flying ball of litter, it may be a robin flying with nesting materials in its beak! Also watch for a female robin with muddy feathers. These are signs that robins have begun to build their nest and plan to raise a family in your neighborhood. The Robin Checklist for Spring Observations lists what to watch for as this exciting season unfolds.
Listen, Too! If you've seen your first robins,
be sure to keep listening for the robin's territorial song so
you can report it for the map. The best time to hear this song
is around sunrise and sunset.
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| Photo: Elizabeth Howard |
| Male, Female: Which? |
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| Photo: Geri DeBoer |
| Name the Gender |
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| Photo: Laura Erickson |
| Open for Business! |
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| Photo: Wayne Kryduba |
| Robin on a Mission! |
Wonder, read and learn:
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| First See (map/list) |
Waves (map/list) |
Singing (map/list) |
Earthworms (map/list) |
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The
First Robin You See |
Robins
migrating in Waves |
The
First Robin You Hear Singing |
Your first sighting of Earthworms |
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