Where
Do Your Robins Go for the Winter?
Analyzing
Banding Data from US Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Migratory Bird
Management
Nobody
has ever flown along with a robin, so how do we know where they go? We
contacted Alan Davenport of the USFWS
Office of Migratory Bird Management in hopes of learning what banding
data show about robin migration. Mr. Davenport has graciously supplied
hundreds of REAL BANDING records for you! These records have been collected
during the past 60 years.
Because
we're interested in migration patterns, he selected records from birds
that were:
- BANDED
during breeding season (May - July)
- RECOVERED
during winter months (December - January)
Where
do YOUR Robins go for the winter?
- Find your
state or province in the proper flyway. Link to the banding records
for your robins, identify each location, and complete the data sheet.
- Next,
respond to these Discussion
Questions to help you analyze and make sense of the data.
Atlantic
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Central
Flyway |
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Mississippi
Flyway |
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Pacific
Flyway |
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Canadian
Provinces |
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