Today's Bird- the American Robin
The Most Abundant Landbird in North America (with 370 Million Individuals)
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Morning lawn patrol!
hopping and hunting for worms
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Considered a symbol of spring, a well-known example is a poem by Emily Dickinson titled "I Dreaded That First Robin So".
Among other 19th-century poems about the first robin of spring is "The First Robin" by William Henry Drummond, which, according to the author's wife, is based on a Quebec superstition that whoever sees the first robin of spring will have good luck.
In Native American mythology, there is a story about how the robin got its red breast by fanning the dying flames of a campfire to save a Native American man and a boy. Similar legends surround the European robin. The Tlingit people of northwestern North America believed the robin to be a cultural hero created by Raven to please the people with its song.
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