• The fluffy, speckled breast. The downy feathers will be pushed out by orange-red adult feathers.
• The soft, wide, orange beak. In a few weeks, the corners of the beak—called the gape—will narrow and harden.
• The open beak begging for food. Juvenile males don't sing until they're of breeding age; female robins don't sing at all.

Larry Koob