GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It's that time of year again. The temperatures are cold. The trees are leafless and powdered with a beautiful layer of snow. And on a personal note, another sure sign of winter is ...

FARGO — Robins fly south for the winter. At least, most of them do. Every winter, however, a few robins stay over the winter even here in the far north, where worms disappear deep down under the frost ...

Imagine packing your bags every year for a long road trip with no GPS, no travel guides, and just your instincts to guide you. That's exactly what robins in Missouri do as winter approaches. But why ...

Now that most of the leaves on the trees and shrubs in the yard have fallen, I can once again see vehicles on the road out front. And I can also see a lot of the wooded hillside across the road, ...

QUESTION:Several weeks ago my husband went out to get the newspaper and a robin flew from under our porch. He wasn't sure that it was a robin and just the other day during shoveling after the storm he ...

OF all the nearly eight hundred species of North American birds, the robin is without question the one most generally known. Its great commonness and wide distribution have something to do with this ...

Famously dubbed the "gardener's friend", robins will happily shadow us as we dig in our gardens, darting in to snatch up worms and larvae exposed by the turning soil. But this behaviour wasn't learned ...