Robin Radar: How Robins Find Worms [NARRATED] 4K 

I am in Alberta Canada and my First Robin Sighting has been special to me all of my life...I am a Gramma now and I will teach this Gift to my Grandaughter I havent seen one yet this year and will continue to keep my eye out

Anyone who has a worm bin knows worms make noise. First time I heard it I was amazed . I love watching the robins hunt for worms, they are so adorable hopping from place to place.

Robin radar is one of my favorite things to observe during spring. In fact right now im watching them after tilling, planting amd weeding. I love how in spring when i distrub the soild and/or water said tilled soil the robins all gather for an earthworm feast. Its so cool watching them tilt their heads strategically to hear and see the worms who are also reacting to the tilled and moistened soil and then hunt, peck and scrath thru the hay and topsoil to gorge on their newly doscovered bounty. I feel a symbiosis with these robins as if i am feeding them. I feel they recognize me and the yard work i do and anticipate it. Ive even come to recognize some of them individually by their size and markings. My yard has become a haven for robins, even tho they are common here. I also have a bunch of cardinals and sparrows that theive iny yard die to izzalea shrubs and rodadendrum. I find it amazing how the red izaleas attract the cardinals. Theyve occupied these shribs for the decades ive lived here.. On a side note my yard im pretty sure has the invassive jumping worm. I live in Pennsylvania and on nights when conditions align i can sit out in my yard at night and hear my entire yard russling. It was so loud i couldnt bwlieve it. All the leaves amd debris would make a crinkling sound as i sat there. Eventually i had to try and fond the soirce of this noise and all o could seek to atteibute it to was these worms i observed. I never went thru the trouble of identification but im prerty sure these are jumping worms, and their excessive wriggling was making this noise. I just wonder if these are the same qorms the robons feast on or if the earthworms and jumping worms are both abundant.

Miss these adorable Robins, just seeing one makes me follow and watch their hunting skills

I once witnessed a hawk attack a robin nest. Only one baby survived. We raised it up to adulthood and man did it eat worms! Unlike the moms and dads, we had to get a shovel and dig 24/7! Our whole backyard was upside-down in a week! And yet, fledglings are better fed by their parents than us. It's amazing!

There have been an incredible amount of robins around my campus this spring, sometimes I just stop between classes and sit there watching them hunt. I love them, they're adorable.

Nice little video. Were at the peak of robin season now. Spring on Vancouver Island. Love to hear that chorus of song when I get up in the morning, it's so cheerful and alive.

I'm glad you stopped by to have lunch! It was great to meet you. I know something about robins.

FANTASTIC narration!!

What a neat and informative video you produced. I love watching the birds about the yard, especially the Robins.

Robins all seem to share embody this nonchalance! They nest where you can easily see the babies. When the babies fledge, they don't care if they fly into you and cling to your clothes or hair. Watching them eat in such a manner surprises me not at all! Thank you for another wonderful and informative video! 🪱

One of the most wonderful moments in bird watching with surprises, from the home window, was, when several Robins kept chasing off the far more numerous, yet smaller, stylish looking maxed Cedar Wax Wings. They all wanted the same seasonal red ripe Pyracantha berry supply. Around and around they went. When one group of waxwings were chased off, another nearby away team flew in and ate those berries like mad, only to b chased off too. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Not too violent nor any feathers flying off. I wondered if this was the derivation of "round robin" ‽ The way I notice waxwings are their many peeps in flight and moving about, and the way the rise and fall as they circle the skies, in large clusters, going from tree to tree, and or tailing American Robins. Years later I saw bunch of 20 or so waxwings in those bright big gold flowers of the large Tulip Tree. News to me they like that tree, too, but them I don't see thos trees much but never thought to look for them there. A good lesson. THEY both can eat tremendous amounts of those bright orange and red berries,day after day, until most nit not all berries are gone. Then as quickly as they reappear each year, they are gone. Not sure it reaches the volume of yards of worms. Food, for thought. A welcomed new, quality informative entertaining video. Thanks.

Incredible video! I never new how Robins got worms, always thought it was funny how they hop around. They are definitely my favorite bird. Thank you for this vieo!

That's so cool, always wondered how they found worms. Nature is amazing!

Really, how cool..! Seeing Robins do ground work like some hired landscaping inspectors--it never occurred to me that it is their equivalent of us hitting the steak house!

The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese😂

About gagged when I thought about swallowing 14 feet of worms! Great research and presentation! --Greg

Thanks - fun video. I noticed Robins seeming talking to each other yesterday. It would be interesting to know what they were saying. Keep up the great videos.

Even our so-called boring birds are anything but. Amazing facts in this video. Thanks for sharing!

Up here in the PNW, I know spring has arrived when I hear the first robin chirping at 6AM.

Thanks for sharing another wonderful video like always, I love Robins🐦❤️🤗

One of my favorite things about Birds is when they bop Their head and hop lol. That and their sounds.

This is fascinating, Jo! Thanks so much. 😊

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I've watched these birds hunt worms in my garden for hours. Robins are good worm hunters. It's a good fight, too. Nightcrawlers.

Great footage.. and very informative.. but the best part is the most talented narrator.. yes you!! Sorry I missed a couple of videos ( watched but left no comment).. thanks hun.. much love..❤️☮️

Thank you so much for your video. Fun, informative, and beautiful. Thanks for making my day better!

Very nice presentation! Love the Robin!

It’s ALWAYS so good to hear from you, Ms. Jo. Thank you for this video. Six wonderful minutes of these beautiful Birds. I am so amazed at how they have “this eye” for Worms, when I see them catching them on my Backyard. Stay healthy and blessed, beautiful friend.

This is beautiful, Jo.

The first time I watched a Robin pull a worm from the ground, I was amazed!

Do you have any publicly available sources for the worm-hunting explanations? It'd be super interesting to see what tests the ornithologists used to figure out these robin super powers.

You deserve millions more subscribers you’re great.

Thanks for your knowledge

Great stuff. Over the years, not sure there’s been a time when after I dig up some ground that a Robin doesn’t appear there soon after.

This is awesome! Thank you for the video!

Always a pleasure to see your latest opus. Thank you for sharing.

most robins are feeding young, and they also eat bugs. Everything they eat, they can regurgitate, including baby poop, which they carry quite a long way away from their nest.

This robin looks and behaves a lot like the redwing (Turdus iliacus) here in Iceland during worm searching. The colour is totally different though.

You left out their lesser known hunting assistant, myself. Whenever I am about to embark on a fishing trip I grab the garden hose and flood the night crawlers out of the ground instead of trying to catch them at night when the come out to breed mainly due to how easily they can be terminally wounded by just squeezing them as hard as needed to wrestle them from their holes while trying not to rip them in half in the process, much of the times the Robins will see what I’m doing and if I act like I don’t know they are there they will come within a few feet of me to join in the fun. Sadly, the new owners of the trailer park are trying to make us all move to develop the land and don’t care about how many lives are destroyed in the process keep cutting down the trees that the birds live in like it’s no big deal. I’m getting to the point of not caring about whether or not I have to break the law to stand up for all the birds that these rich people are killing just to get richer. Birds used to be so abundant in the summer that their singing is what would wake me up in the mornings, but now I get surprised if I hear any at all. When they are heard it is usually because they are in distress. We truly are a pathetic species and I’m ashamed to be human because of it.

Great video as always 😊🐦👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Great vid' and beautiful filming.

Very good. Always wondered.

I’ve got multiple robins and different kinds of birds that live by my house. they come to my house every morning for my bird feeder and bird bath, and if they are out of food they wait in the trees or fence and watch me fill both back up.

I’ve always enjoyed your videos. I always learn something. Earthworms aren’t native to North America? Wow.

Jurassic VelociRobin is a first class predator! Glad they're not 12 feet tall!

From what I understand robin's can hear worms underground. You see them turning their heads to one side next to ground.

Several years ago I cut the grass where I was living. The yard was 10k square feet. When ever I started mowing with the push mower, it wouldn't be long and the Robin's would be on the grass getting worms. I suspected it was the vibration from the mower driving the worms to the surface. Is this assumption correct?

So science still doesn't know how birds finds worm and how the Great Pyramids were built!

Really cool mam! Preciate it!

Even if an ornithologist didnt say how a bird detects worms, we could still believe what youre saying :)

Finding worms is easy, I want to know how they pull an entire worm from it's hole using a sharp beak! Try and get an earthworm out of it's hole with your fingers!

They hear them

Interesting.

very kool

Birds are cute

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A robin has built a nest right next to my window and it’s eggs just hatched. I’m worried there’s not enough worms in my yard what should I do?

..and the blue violets in that lawn are amazing too! Viola sororia?

The robins in my yard jump like a fox and stab the ground with their beak

The most interesting fact in this clip is that earthworms were brought to the America's by Europeans

okay but why the constant transitions to another bird doing the same thing as the previous one? Just stay on the shot of that one bird for longer. The constant wipes is annoying and distracting.

My gosh, I love to listen to you explaining bird facts. I often end up quoting them to myself (and to others) after I've watched a new video! ❤

Robins are Michigan's state bird. They arrive here every spring, sometimes a bit early and the snow makes them look so grumpy. I've grown up seeing them. We have bird feeders hanging, but never see robins at them. Instead, they hop around the grass just as you describe, grabbing up worms. We were curious about their ability to find worms and your video was recommended to me tonight. Thanks for the robin lesson.

I love your videos and commentary, and robins are my favourite - it's a match made in heaven. It always cracks me up when they decide to run across a road with their twiddly legs instead of hopping along or flying. 😂

oh man, when you said earthworms aren't native to this continent @3:30 I almost fell out of my chair. That can't be right! a quick search revealed that there is a species of earthworm around the great lakes region that came from Europe, but worms are native everywhere there is good ground. I dare say that if there had been no earthworms on this continent it still wouldn't be settled by man, it would be a dry barren wasteland.

I assumed it was vibrations, not sound! Beautiful footage and informative narration, thank you.

Wonderful video. You are a delightful explainer!

I had 3 pairs of Robins around my property this spring and 1 set of Catbirds. All of them had broods, 1 set of juvenile Robins and Catbirds have stayed behind. The juvenile Catbirds are so curious and funny, plus we play the mew game. The bird keeps going 1 octave higher a few times, then changes to the nonsensical songbird medley.

Oh, how I love your posts!! So wonderfully visual and the writing and narration is superb!! Love those robins.

A great video. I actually learned a few things that I didn't know. Thank you.

Can you explain how earthworms were brought here by Europeans?

I love seeing Robins around. They are really cool birds.

Earthworms are not native to the americas!?

Amazing! Always wondered about that. Thanks for your video. 😊

Excellent. I always wondered and now you've explained it so well. Thank you.❤❤❤

My yard is so riddled with earthworms that when I walk it sounds as though I'm walking on a waterbed as every step I take causes the worms in the immediate vicinity to hide which prompts the ones further away to hide causing a wave like reaction which sounds like walking on a waterbed... I've taken videos and even Had The Weather Channel investigate it... now I know why there are always Robins in my yard and they never ever visit my feeders... it's because they prefer the worms

T G for mute option!!

Beautifully presented and informative. I learned many new fascinating things, and by far the most amazing was that the robin ingests 14 feet of worms per day.

I was looking at a robin earlier and thinking about it. I said something hi robin and here we are. It recommended it. Stop invading my privacy. Stop invading my thoughts

I just spotted a Robin in the grass at a short distance away , it stood there frozen for about 2 minutes then it suddenly turned its head at 180’ it took two leaps at about 10ft away! before you knew it it had the ( i think it was a caterpillar ) , im amazed at how acute their hearing is

Holy Schmoley! What a great video. Thanks, Jo. Robins are such bizarre little creatures with so many diverse behaviors. I am fascinated by how they are normally solitary meat eaters and then at some point join up with a mob of vegan berry hunters and go a-rampaging through the city. I have a cherry laurel in my backyard and look forward every winter to the "Day of the Robin" when they descend in their teeming masses and eat every berry. It is such a feeding frenzy, that you can climb into the tree with them, and they don't even shy away.

I love watching them hunt from lawn to lawn . I leave out oranges & jelly. My next door neighbor puts out old bread, the other birds gobble it up.

I have theorized that when they stop and look around, right after catching a worm, they are looking to see if any other birds saw it. They are worried another bird, blackbirds especially, will come snatch their worm or hunting spot. I do the same thing when I'm walleye fishing...lol

Near Tampa,Florida first week in February flocks of robins used to show up in our yard to feast on trees that have blank seeds the size of peas. In twenty years time the size of these sighting have severely gotten smaller. I hope the robins can survive.

Everything makes me think of her😅

Great video! Love the footage and narration

Isthere a way to Discourage blue birds, while Encouraging Robins to visit my trees, yard?

I've seen my backyard robins appear to jump on the ground a few times, then sit still for a minute, then grab a worm out of the ground. I always assumed the robins were vibrating the ground to make the worms come to the surface. I've also seen robins get into deadly fights with windows, so I don't put much into their intelligence.

Many robins in my yard drag their wingtips. It seems part of the worm hunt.

Great video!

I found this video out of my curiosity watching robins feeding from pale grass and never understood what is there that they feed on. I got all my answers and I also found an amazing channel.

Fourteen feet of worms a day?!?! I don't think I can ever look at a robin again without that little tidbit popping into my head. 😂 I love your videos, Jo. This one gave me a few chuckles. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this video. I moved from Illinois a couple of years ago and oh my gosh how I miss the Robin, my favorite bird!

X wife's name is Robin & she too was pretty good at gobbling up on this worm...