Known for their bright blue eggs, American robins are a familiar sight hopping across lawns in search of worms, fruit, and ...

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 ...

Since ancient times, people from numerous cultures have turned to nature for the indication of seasonal change. Before the ...

Robins, historically viewed as some of the surest harbingers of spring, have been showing up in backyards across Pennsylvania. That is naturally leading to a range of questions from readers: Does this ...

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, ...

Kwroop, kwroop, kwroop, kwropt, kwropt, kwropt, kwropt the robin clucked in its accelerating style. A song of spring. The morning chorus is growing, like the length of day, and soon too the turf grass ...

Robins are not a sign of spring any more than Punxsutawney Phil, that pampered Pennsylvania groundhog, is a predictor of weather. Here's the scoop on Phil: if he sees his shadow, it means six more ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Thursday being the first day of spring, I found it appropriate that I again saw dozens of robins along the trail as I went for a run on the wooded hill that leads to Corcoran's football stadium.

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, ...