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Journey North News will be posted on Tuesdays Feb. 4, 18, Mar 4, 11*, 18, 25*,Apr. 1, 8*,15, 29, May 13 (* Migration Data Only) Journey North News Announcing the 10th Annual Winter Robin Round-Up: February 4-18, 2003 Where are the robins spending this winter? Let's find out! Before the spring migration begins this year, we'd like to know if you have robins over-wintering in your town. Go outside and look for robins. Ask your neighbors if they have seen robins. Contact your friends and relatives in other parts of North America. Ask everybody you know to help you look for robins! Then report your sightings by February 18, 2003. Together we'll all tell the story as we make our Winter Robin Round-Up map! Reminder: 10th Annual Winter Robin Round-Up: February 4-18, 2003 The Robin Round-Up is underway. What are we hearing so far? See a few highlights in today's reminder, and watch for a full update next week. In the meantime, keep watching and listening for robins! Then report your sightings by February 18, 2003 to see your robins on our Winter Robin Round-Up map! American Robin Migration Update: February 18, 2003 Where were robins found in February? See your sightings in a clear pattern on the new Winter Robin Round-Up map! Take the mystery out of deciphering the dots on our robin migration maps with our simple new tutorial. Enjoy observers' comments about typical robin behavior seen during this unusual winter as we wait for the big surge northward, and don't miss the robin flock photos from Bridge School in Lexington, Mass. Can you remember how to tell a singing robin from a calling one? Tune up with our Robin Song Study--the surest way to know when YOUR robin arrives back on territory. You can sometimes smell spoiled food, but can robins? Read the surprising answer in Toxic Lunches. American Robin Migration Update: March 4, 2003 Robins are appearing in more and more places. No big push northward has occurred yet, but they?ve been reported singing pretty far north in Canada! Robins eat animals 42 percent of the time and plants 58 percent of the time. Find out what?s on a robin?s menu this time of year while you enjoy your own menu of options in our new Reading and Writing Connection. See this week?s earthworm map, and then try a hands-on experiment to see if robins really do follow the 37-degree isotherm. How long will it take robins to reach the end of the road? See our newest list of Northern Observation Outposts and make your own predictions. And now?s your chance to enter this year?s Early Bird Contest: When the first robins be seen in Anchorage, Alaska? American Robin Migration Update: March 11, 2003 Just a quick update today to give you the latest data for your migration map. Watch for a full update next week--and keep watching and listening for robins! American Robin Migration Update: March 18, 2003 Robins are on the move, probably thinking "It?s Great to be back!" What things make a good home territory for those robins? Find out from a robin?s point of view. More and more robins will be singing in the coming days and weeks. Get ready to listen and "translate" with our Robin Dictionary. We give you some colorful maps and good guiding questions to help you ponder this: Do robins really follow the 37-degree isotherm? And don?t forget: Ask the American Robin Expert is now receiving your questions. American Robin Migration Update: March 25, 2003 Just a quick update today to give you the latest data for your migration map. Watch for a full update next week--and keep watching and listening for robins! American Robin Migration Update: April 1, 2003 Robins are working their way up the continent. A third of the Northern Observation Posts have now reported them! Whether they're eating berries, apples, worms, or insects, robins get the energy to stay alive from their food. But where does the energy in their food come from? Our robin expert explores several fascinating robin food chains. Check the newest temperature map in your quest to learn whether robins follow the 37-degree isotherm. American Robin Migration Update: April 8, 2003 Just a quick update today to give you the latest data for your migration map. Watch for a full update next week--and keep watching and listening for robins! American Robin Migration Update: April 15, 2003 Robins are turning up nearly everywhere, including half of the Northern Observation Posts and Anchorage! One returned migrant is Robin Hood, back in Julie's yard for the third year in a row. Read the Adventures of Robin Hood in this week's report. Then get out your tape measures and answer this fascinating Challenge Question: What is the average fright distance your class observes when students slowly approach a robin that's hunting or feeding, and one that's singing? American Robin Migration Update: April 29, 2003 American Robins are already starting to nest in many places, but some are still on the journey north. Take a Vermont observer's challenge to calculate average number of robins flying overhead per minute and per hour. What are the last four NOPs still waiting to see their first robins? Take a video peek at the activities of males and females back on the breeding territory, and build a robin's nest with our crafty directions. FINAL American Robin Migration Update: May 13, 2003 To the delight of robin-lovers, they're now almost everywhere. Inuvik, Northwest Territories, is the final holdout among our Northern Observation Posts. Robins build nests in trees and on human structures, and successfully raise babies in both places. But many robin babies in tree nests are often taken by crows. See the solution to that problem in this report! And now that robins are nesting in many places, download our idea list for observations to make. Welcome home, robins!                         Copyright 2003 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form