Banding birds provides data that helps us understand the movements of birds. Bird banding demonstrations happen at ACNC Saturday mornings in the spring. Photo by Jennifer Schlick If the groundhog sees ...

The robin is regularly crowned the UK's favourite bird. With its inquisitive nature and unmistakable red breast, it's a ...

As it seems we won’t be getting winter this year, I am going to skip ahead to spring. American robins are closely associated with spring in our collective wisdom. We await the first robin of spring, ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Winter is quickly winding down and the days are getting longer. We often look toward animals to determine if the warmer temperatures are here to stay. The robin is a very popular bird ...

When you’re watching a robin on a morning when the temperature is 20 below zero, you start to wonder, has this bird lost its status as a sign of spring? Well, it has, and it hasn’t. Certainly, robins ...

On a recent dreary morning — mist and rain, soggy ground — I dragged out of bed, shuffled off to the kitchen, put a pot on and stared out my window. What I saw changed my world. It was a red, red ...

It’s an old adage that most likely refers to the American robin (Turdus Migratorius). This year, I first saw robins in late March, right around the time that maple sap started running. As I write this ...

The robins are back. That means spring, right? Aren't robins the traditional harbinger of spring? Well, yes and no. Yes, they are the traditional harbinger of spring by conventional wisdom, but, no, ...