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American popular songs featuring this bird include "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)", written by Harry M. Woods. [52] Although the comic book superhero Robin was inspired by an N. C. Wyeth illustration of Robin Hood , [ 53 ] [ 54 ] a later version had his mother nicknaming him Robin because he was born on the first day ...
Audio files of bird calls are useful for identification and this is a fairly long recording of the song. Common species in North America, but exotic to the rest of the world. Recorded Sandbanks Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada -- 2007 May by Mdf .
The song, rather low-pitched and with a slow steady tempo, consists of many slurred musical phrases which are often repeated irregularly. The tock flight call is like the American robin's but harsher. T. grayi's dry season mating call is quite region-specific, with noticeable differences in calls just a few hundred miles apart.
The American robin, like most thrushes, has a complex near continuous song, consisting of discrete units often repeated and spliced by a string of pauses. Other birds (especially non-passeriforms) sometimes have songs to attract mates or hold territory, but these are usually simple and repetitive, lacking the variety of many oscine songs.
Among those 15 additional songs on the second part of “Tortured Poets” is a track called “Robin,” a piano ballad in which Swift draws imagery of animals and alludes to adolescence.
American robin Turdus migratorius: 1931 [1] Coat of Arms: Coat of Arms of the State of Michigan: 1835 [2] Fish: Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis: 1988 In 1965, the trout was named the official state fish; this was specified as the brook trout in 1988. [1] Flag: Flag of the State of Michigan: 1911 Flower: Apple Blossom [note 1] Malus sp. 1897 [3]
The song of the scarlet tanager sounds somewhat like a hoarser version of the American robin's and is only slightly dissimilar from the songs of the summer and western tanagers. The call of the scarlet tanager is an immediately distinctive chip-burr or chip-churr , which is very different from the pit-i-tuck of the summer tanager and the softer ...
The larger American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a much larger bird named for its similar coloration to the European robin, but the two birds are not closely related, with the American robin instead belonging to the same genus as the common blackbird (T. merula), a species which occupies much of the same range as the European robin. The ...