AMERICAN ROBIN
AMERICAN ROBIN (Turdus migratorius) [Western Robin]
Western populations are often paler than eastern populations and have almost no white at the tail corners.
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1927 Santa Barbara Island: “Turdus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. Several were seen by [O.W.] Howard.” [“Through the generosity of Mr. Silsby M. Spalding who placed at our disposal his splendid cruiser Padariva I the writer accompanied by H. W. Carriger, Dudley DeGroot and 0. W. Howard was enabled to spend the
period from March 25 to April 5, 1927, inclusive, among the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California.”]
Pemberton, J. R. Additions to the known avifauna of the Santa Barbara Islands The Condor 30(2):144-148, March-April 1928
1927 Santa Rosa Island: “Turdus migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. [Dudley] DeGroot saw on April 4 a flock of about twenty on the higher ground of the western side of Belcher's [sic] Bay.”
Pemberton, J. R. Additions to the known avifauna of the Santa Barbara Islands The Condor 30(2):144-148, March-April 1928
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| San Nicolas Island | Paul Collins | SBMNH | December 9, 1994 | SBMNH-6502 | Turdus migratorius | Birds |
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| Santa Catalina Island | P. I. Osburn | MCZ | February 18, 1910 | MCZ-318612 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Catalina Island | P. I. Osburn | MCZ | February 18, 1910 | MCZ-318613 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Catalina Island | P. I. Osburn | SDNHM | February 18, 1910 | SDNHM-11721 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Catalina Island | A. J. Van Rossem | UCLA | January 24, 1920 | UCLA-3450 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Catalina Island | George Willett | LACM | January 24, 1941 | LACM-19824 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Catalina Island | George Willett | LACM | January 27, 1941 | LACM-19825 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| Santa Cruz Island | George Frank Breninger | MCZ | February 13, 1895 | MCZ-312139 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Cruz Island | George Frank Breninger | SBMNH | February 13, 1895 | MCZ-312140 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Cruz Island | A. J. Van Rossem | UCLA | March 30, 1920 | UCLA-3767 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| Santa Cruz Island | H. H. Sheldon | UCLA | March 30, 1920 | UCLA-21854 | Turdus migratorius propinquus | Birds |
| ISLAND | COLLECTOR | INSTITUTION | DATE | NUMBER | SPECIMEN | |
| Santa Rosa Island | Paul Collins | SBMNH | November 14, 1986 | SBMNH-AV-5294 | Turdus migratorius | Birds |
In the News~
July 1923: “Planesticus migratorius propinquis (Ridgway). Western Robin. The Western Robin has already been recorded from Santa Catalina by Harry Harris (Condor, XXI, 1919, p. 172). In view of the scarcity of records for this island, it is perhaps pardonable to record an additional adult female, taken at White's Landing, January 24, 1920. On Santa Cruz Island, a flock of about 10 birds, from which a female was collected, was found in the oaks near the main ranch, back of Prisoner's [sic] Harbor, March 30, 1920. Mr. Fred Caire, the owner of the island, as well as several residents, stated that robins were present by hundreds during the early winter of that year.”
- [1923 Dickey, D. R. and A. J. Van Rossem Additional notes from the coastal islands of Southern California in The Condor 25(4):126-129 July p. 129]
- [original in SCIF archives]
