Animal
American robin
Turdus migratorius
The most-common songbird in North America by population estimate (~370 million) — and the bird most associated with spring-arriving warmth across the eastern U.S. Year-round resident on Staten Island, present in every park, residential lawn, and forest-edge habitat. Eats earthworms, fruit, and insects; the lawn-pulling-worms behavior is one of the most-recognizable bird actions on the borough.
Scientific
Turdus migratorius is a 2.7 oz thrush with a brick-red breast and grey-brown back. Diet is highly seasonal: earthworms and insects in spring/summer, fruits and berries in fall/winter. Famous lawn-[[foraging|foraging]] behavior — they detect worms partly visually (cocked-head pose) and partly through ground vibrations.
Robins are technically migratory across most of their range, but in the mid-Atlantic and northern U.S. many populations are year-round; what shifts is which individual birds are present, with northern breeders moving south for winter and replacing more-northern breeders that winter farther south.
On Staten Island
Year-round, borough-wide. Nests in residential trees, parks, woodland edges. Lawn-foraging behavior visible across nearly every grassy lawn on the borough. Late winter / early spring choruses (the rich “cheerily, cheer-up” song) are one of the most-recognizable seasonal-transition signals on SI.
See also
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- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology eBird and species accounts
- NYC Audubon SI bird-survey records
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