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.

Michigan's state bird is the American robin, but one lawmaker says it's time for a change. ... You know, don't touch the robin. And, you know, I'm not dissing the robin at all. Don't get me wrong.

A crumb-seeking bird is hardly exceptional in this country — at Edale, near Kinder Scout in Derbyshire, I once saw a robin foraging inside the café among the tables and chairs — but that moment was ...

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 ...