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STRAIGHT BILLED SONG BIRDS
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The Robin Go Down Go Up
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Turdus
Species: Migratorius
Common Name: American Robin
Conservation Status: LC
Subspecies: seven
Eastern robin, Newfoundland robin, northwestern robin
Mexican robin, San Lucas robin, southern robin, western robin
Description
Length: 9 to 11 inches
Wingspan: 12 to 16 inches
Male: Red breast and under parts. Black head with white split eye rings.
Black neck with vertical white bars. Yellow bill.
Dark gray back, wings and tail. White rump.
Female: browner above and duller below.
Juvenile: heavily spotted with dusky-colored bill.
First Year: not easily distinguishable from adults, but duller.
Habitat
Numerous in backyards and common in moist woodlands. Can be shy.
Often perches atop a tall tree and sings repeated three word song.
Range
Year-round: Continentally widespread.
Breeding: Northernmost areas of North America from the US-Canada border
west to include nearly all of Alaska and east throughout the Canadian Shield.
Wintering: Southeast California Basin and Range, All of Baja California.
South Texas Coastal Plains, West Texas Great Plains and mountains.
Southeast Georgia Coastal Plains, Eastern Florida Coastal Plains.
All of Mexico Except the Sierra Madre Occidental (13W)
and southward into Belize and Guatemala.

The 2020 Journey, Robin Go Down Go Up
Thursday, 04 June 2020, Rock Springs, WY.
(Day 653 TG) 58°F. 6:30 am, sunny
Arriving at the Warren Bridge campground, I set up my campsite, catch up on my journal writing and a little later, I go for a walk, see and photograph: two bald eagles, a osprey nest, a robin, and a tree swallow. I also take a few photos of the Warren Bridge. I next, return to the jammer and pound keys until about eight, when I stop, set outside with my camera and take photos of the sunglow and the full moon.
The Strawberry Moon
(m5he-ch-full-06-2020-0604.2043) Jammer at Warren Bridge Campground
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
Wednesday, 06 May 2020, Red Feather Lakes, CO
(Day 624 TG) 26°F. (20°F. low) 6:30 am, sunny and clear
At eight, I see Gordon beginning his morning tasks, and I get out to show him a couple of photos I took. Also, I tell him that from these photos, I am able to id the type hummingbird as a Rufus. I also see a female Red Crossbill, a bird that I have never seen.
There is also another bird that I hear each morning but have not been able to see it, much less identify. When I hear it this morning, I take my camera and begin walking toward the sound and soon, I am able to spot it in the top of a pine tree more than fifty feet high. I immediately zoom in and snap a photo but the bird seems to be in the dark and all I get is a shadow image. I walk further around the tree and begin so see some color when I take the photo and after more than a dozen shots, I recognize the bird as a Robin.
Today, I have learned about the habit of the Robin, the sound of it′s call and where the bird roosts to sing.
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2020-0506.0954) Robin Perched atop tree and Singing
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2020-0506.0955) Robin Perched atop tree

The 2012-2010 Journey, Robin Go Down Go Up
Oak Harbor, Washington Backyard Birding
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2010-0301.1328) ♀ Female in backyard high grass.
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2010-0408.1130) ♀ Female in backyard high grass.
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2010-1228.1506) ♂ Male with leucism in backyard grass.
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2010-1228.1507) ♂ Male with leucism in backyard grass.
Straight Billed Song Birds
Robin
(m3an-chb-sost-118ro-2010-1228.1508) ♂ Male in backyard high grass.

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