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Is Your State Bird Moving On?

Wisconsin species impacted by Global Warming
Robin Robin
(Turdus migratorius)

State bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin
Photo © Rod Planck / Photo Researchers, Inc.
Learn more about this bird at eNature.com

 
The robin is not in danger of disappearing from its home states.

Description
9-11" (23-28 cm). Gray above, brick red below. Head and tail black in males, dull gray in females. Young birds are spotted below.

Voice
Song is a series of rich caroling notes, rising and falling in pitch: cheer-up, cheerily, cheer-up, cheerily.

Habitat
Towns, gardens, open woodlands, and agricultural land.
See birds in your state with populations that are:

Alder Flycatcher
American Redstart
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blue-headed Vireo
Boreal Chickadee
Brewer's Blackbird
Canada Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
Connecticut Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
Golden-winged Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Least Flycatcher
Lincoln's Sparrow
Magnolia Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Northern Waterthrush
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Pine Siskin
Purple Finch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Sedge Wren
Swamp Sparrow
Tennessee Warbler
White-throated Sparrow
Winter Wren
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Evening Grosbeak



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The background information for this presentation comes from The Birdwatcher's Guide to Global Warming, which was prepared by Jeff Price, Ph.D., American Bird Conservancy and Patricia Glick, M.S., National Wildlife Federation.

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