Exploring Nature: American Robin

2023 is shaping up as the year of the robin for me.

I have been blessed with a group of about six birds who show up in my backyard daily and drink from my sturdy concrete birdbath. I delight in their colorful reddish orange breasts and admire their blackstreaked white throats.

Specifically, these are American robins, so named to differentiate them from other robin species that occur throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Three of these “other” species have been spotted as vagrants along the Rio Grande in Texas, including the clay-colored robin.