So
Very Hungry!
For
the first four days of a nestling's life, the parent
birds regurgitate partly digested food into each baby’s mouth.
By five days of age, the nestlings get earthworms that parents break
into small mouthfuls.
The babies eat more each day. Soon parents give them whole worms and
large insects. Each young robin may eat 14 feet of earthworms in a
two-week nest life—and worms are not even their main food!
How can parents keep up? Both parents feed the babies. A robin might
make 100 feeding visits to its nest each day. There's no time to go
far on a food hunt. That’s why a good territory is important
to robins in spring.