Wisconsin State Bird
American Robin

• Official Wisconsin State Bird Name: Robin
• American Ornithologists' Union Common Name: American Robin
• Family: Turdidae; Thrushes
• Scientific name: Turdus migratorius
• Length: 10" (25 cm)
• Diet: Insects, earthworms, snails, etc.; much fruit. Young fed insects.
• Voice: Song a series of low, whistled phrases with liquid quality typical of thrushes; each phrase delivered rather quickly but with long pauses between phrases; often 2 or 3 phrases alternately repeated over and over plurrri, liwi, plurrri, kliwi....Call varies from a low mellow pup or a sharp, clucking, often doubled piik to a sharper, rapid, urgent series kli quiquiquiqui koo; also a lower, softer puk puk puk  and a harsh, high, descending shheerr. Flight call al very high, trilled, descending srreel; often combined with other calls such as a  srreel puk puk puk. Alarm like other thrushes: a very high, thing  tseew or shorter seew.
• Habitat: Cities, towns, farmland, lawns, shade trees, forests.
• Displays: Courting groups of males chase female, or male struts around female with tail spread, wings shaking, throat inflated.
• Number of broods: 2, occasionally 3.
• Nest: In trees 10-20' above ground; also buildings, other structures offering sufficient support, shrubs, occasionally on ground; unkempt foundation of protruding twigs and grass, cup of mud, lined with fine grass.
• Eggs: Averages 4 pale blue, occasionally white, usually unmarked, sometimes flecked with brown. 1.1" (28 mm).
• Incubation period: 12-14 days
• Fledge: 14-16 days after hatching
• Longevity Record: 13 Years and 11 months (according to USGS Bird Banding Lab)

A welcome sign of the coming spring, the red-breasted robin won the hearts of school children across the state, who voted to name it the official Wisconsin State Bird in 1926-27.

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The American Robin is the State Bird of two other States besides Wisconsin:
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American Robins can be attracted to nest in man-made nest platforms. 
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