Description

Voice

Song a series of rich caroling notes, rising and falling in pitch, cheer-up, cheerily, cheering-up, cheerily.

Habitat

Towns, gardens, open woodlands, and agricultural land.

Nesting

3-5 Blue-Green eggs in a well-made cup of mud reinforced with grass and twigs, and lined with softer grasses. The nest is placed in a tree or ledge or windowsill; American usually have 2 broods a season.

Other

Robins originally nested in forests; where they still do so they are much shyer then the robins of the door yard. They breed only rarely in the Deep South, where they prefer large shade trees on lawns. Although considered a harbinger of spring , robins often winter in the northern states, where they frequent cedar bogs and swamps and are not usually noticed by a casual observer, except when they gather in large roots, often containing thousands of birds.