Known for their bright blue eggs, American robins are a familiar sight hopping across lawns in search of worms, fruit, and insects like grasshoppers and caterpillars. They are early risers, singing ...

American robins have returned to northern Alaska. A male is now perched above me in a balsam poplar tree on this bench of well-drained land upon which sits the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Here are some interesting facts about spring's unofficial mascot.