Unlike traditional bird boxes, open-fronted designs have no front barrier, allowing robins unobstructed access without having to squeeze through a small opening to reach food.

Yet this amazing, ubiquitous bird is not without enemies. Snakes, squirrels, foxes and cats all prey on robins. But perhaps the robins most dangerous foe in the 1950s and 1960s was humans.

Popular British birds like robins and sparrows will be poking their beaks into feeders, tree branches and bird tables in increasingly greater numbers, filling the air with their vibrant chatter.

Birds like the northern cardinal and even the American robin, Michigan's state bird, tend to survive extreme cold better. Though robins are known to migrate south to warmer temperatures when ...