Cornell University’s famed Laboratory of Ornithology has set up a Robin Cam (very near the lab itself) with a real-time view of a pair of adult American Robin (Turdus migratorius) and their chicks. I believe the first chick (four eggs) hatched today, and what you’re seeing below is live. Be sure to put it on full screen, as the video is in high definition.
Such beautiful birds but, like the starling, their beauty is underappreciated because the birds are so common.
Cornell has other cams, too, like this Barred Owl cam.
h/t: Taskin
Two chicks now.
Of course they’re not ‘real’ Robins.
I knew someone was gonna say that! Someone from the land of Sandwiches that aren’t real!
Earl of Sandwich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich#Etymology
You North Americans are continually appropriating cultural foods. 😉
And, in some cases ruining them.lol
Growing up in Canada, I remember being baffled by the pictures of robins in the British books I had. 🙂
Not as confused when I came to Canada and the locals referred to the red breasted thrushes as robins.
Well, for the record, Thrushes don’t get thrush, Bald Eagles aren’t bald, and Great Tits don’t have, well…you get what I mean. And it appears that with each passing year, T. migratorius doesn’t do much migrating, at least here in Missouri.
The female has a white dot on her head. It’s lovely to watch her snuggle down on top of the nest.
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I just had a nest of two Robins fledge this Saturday, though I’m a bit further south so I guess they got a head start. Hope they made it, I missed the big event.
And now this…
Another under-appreciated quality of the American robin is its song. Very beautiful, but so common it can be over looked… or under heard.