[Tweeters] What did Robins do before ...

[Jeff Gilligan]

I have a vague recollection from some source that American Robins before white settlement were probably fairly restricted to sub-alpine and recently burned habitats. 

Jeff Gilligan
Willapa Bay




> On Jul 18, 2023, at 2:45 PM, J Christian Kessler <1northraven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

> I remember a robin at the top of a Ponderosa Pine at about 11,000 feet on a steep slope in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just singing its lungs out - nothing even close to level ground or or any grass within miles.  I lived in Virginia then and was kind of stunned, I had to climb about 500 feet up-slope from where I first was to get a level look at the bird to make sure it was a Robin and not some western bird I didn't know at the time.  

> 

> in my experience these days in northwest WA, the "American Lawn Thrush" loves mountain slopes, especially gravel roads, in the summer months.

> 

> Chris Kessler

> Seattle

> 

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:17 PM Jerry Tangren <kloshewoods at outlook.com <mailto:kloshewoods at outlook.com>> wrote:

> I believe they were a mountain meadow species. When we began putting meadows (aka lawns) in our yard, they moved right in. 

> 

> Lorna and I were in Nome, Alaska the third week of June. One of the common species of the willow scrub on the Seward Peninsula is the Robin.

> 

> —Lorna & Jerry Tangren

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> Subject: [Tweeters] What did Robins do before ...

>  

> Hi,

> 

>    So when I think of a robin - it is in the yard working the lawn for

> worms and insects.  This has been true for my entire life (more than 70).

> True enough that I've started to consider seeing a robin where there

> wasn't some form of lawn near as 'exceptional'.  A "lawn" would be any

> area where it is mowed several times a year - not necessarily the

> manicured lawns so many of us have.

>    We used to see a lot of robins in our yard.  We converted our lawn to

> all native plants (no grass).  Now we still have the occasional robin

> but no where near as many as when we had a lawn.

> 

>    So my question for this group is "where did the robins feed - before

> humans started planting lawns?".

>                                               - Jim in Burlington

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