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Turdus Migratorius
Found these pretty fellas while walking down to the local Library on a better day than today, last month. Some were mating. They were sooo cute.
Michigan, apparently they like to sit on deadly electrical wiring!
Robins are Michigan's state bird. That's what-for the strange title of this spotting.
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Thank you for confirming this, Avianpost. :)
Sorry, I meant that the birds had a red breast. I got bird anatomy & human anatomy mixed up; I tend to think like that.
American Robins have a white throat with black streaks and a red breast.
I'm pretty sure they were all robins. We don't get too many pidgeons here in Troy, Michigan. My camera is a bit shabby; there was a red throat on these birds which the SONY Bloggie I used to take the photos could not pick up (but my farsighted vision could).
The scientific name for the American Robin is Turdus migratorius. Hope this helps! :)
Welcome to Project Noah, Avianpost! Cool to hear the state bird of Michigan is a robin! Are you sure all of these photos are of robins? Photos two through five appear to be a separate species. Separate species can be made into a new spotting. Thank you, and again, welcome to Project Noah!
Hard to tell. It doesn't look all the birds are the same species. The second one looks like pigeons.