From seasonal greeting cards to festive decorations and wrapping paper, robins are a quintessential Christmas motif. But have you ever wondered how these cheerful little birds became such beloved ...

As an old European Christmas story goes, on the cold night when Jesus was born in a Bethlehem stable, Mary cried out that the embers in the stable’s campfire were burning out. Her cries awakened a ...

One of my favorite things to do during the Christmas Bird Count is to look for robins. That’s right, the humble American robin, a bird of neighborhoods and our most urban of environments and one often ...