American Robin

http://wildfidalgo.blogspot.com/2011/05/american-robin.html
[some fantastic robin shots and notes]

Thanks to Mother Goose Folktales, robins, sparrows, and geese introduce children to their first birds. We also see these birds early in life when our family takes us down the street to the park. American robins are often seen plucking berries from trees or sprinting across lawns then standing still and alert poised to tug an earthworm from its element or snap up beetles crawling in the grass. Robins yank worms from the ground, sometimes throwing their whole bodies into action for stubborn ones, and they swallow them down in a few short gulps. American robins are abundant and fairly adapted to life in our neighborhoods all across North America. Look in your yard for a bird with an orange rusty breast and belly and dark grey head, face, upperparts and tail. There is a little white along the outer tail and low belly and their black eye is surrounded by a broken white ring. Robins' beaks are yellow. These songbirds of the thrush family have a friendly and robust aura. Their song is a hearty, ringing rather uneven trill repeated numerous times. They are fun to watch in the wild or on your campus or lawn and do not startle and fly off easily. Their boldness and their nearness to humans make them appeal to us as a personable bird.