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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A robin appeared to pose for a photo just days before the first day of spring. Robert Bye of Sioux Falls said he took the photo in his backyard. The bird was perched in a ...

Known for their bright blue eggs, American robins are a familiar sight hopping across lawns in search of worms, fruit, and insects like grasshoppers and caterpillars. They are early risers, singing ...

The American robin has long signaled the arrival of spring, right up there with crocuses poking through dirt and frogs ribbiting at night. But despite the familiar songbird’s reputation for being the ...

With the start of spring less than a week away — Punxsutawney Phil's prediction notwithstanding — many Americans are undoubtedly on the lookout for the return of the robin. The migratory bird has long ...

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 ...

In my opinion, the robin gets too much credit for being a harbinger of spring. Sure, most robins migrate each fall from Michigan to warmer places for the winter, but a few do remain behind in brushy ...

Birds need help year-round, whether that involves providing them tasty food to graze on or water to bathe in. This becomes even more important in the spring months when UK birds are building nests, ...