Filoli Trail - American Robin

The American Robin are large songbirds with a large, round body, long legs, and a long tail. They are gray-brown to black birds with warm orange underparts and dark heads. Diet - These robins eat both invertebrates and fruit. Especially in the spring and summer, they eat a lot of earthworms and insects and some snails. The fruits that they eat are chokecherries, hawthorn, dogwood, and sumac fruits and juniper berries. Habitat/Range - American Robins are found across North America in gardens, parks, yards, fields, tundras, deciduous woodlands, pine forests, and shrublands. Behavior - These stern birds stand erect and tilt their beak upward to survey their environment. In fall and wither, they form large flocks and gather in trees to roost or eat berries. They usually nest in sites with horizontal branches hidden in or just below a layer of dense leaves in the lower half of the tree.