Wild Bird Food : What Do Robins Eat?

Robins tend to switch their diet seasonally, so they eat insects during the summer months and seeds during the winter months. Explore the behavior and feeding patterns of robins with helpful information from an Audubon Society member in this free video on wild birds.
Expert: Wayne R. Petersen
Contact: www.massaudubon.org
Bio: Wayne R. Petersen is director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas (IBA) program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

[@crlchs]

This is actually true - I live in Maryland, and had a huge flock of robins I thought were migrating, but they never left. I threw out dried meal worms, suet...weren't interested in the least. But as soon as the holly berries on my tree out back were ripe, they have been feasting from morning til dusk! The whole tree shakes with all the robins in it pulling berries off. So happy they have food. They are the biggest robins I've ever seen! Not the little guys you see in summer hopping around on the grass - these are the size of mourning doves and they cover the bare trees when they're not eating. Beautiful sight. God is so good! He feeds the birds!

[@artistkeith3]

Love the squirrel in the background!

[@benbrgr9]

I currently have a pair of Robin's nesting in my backyard. I've been setting out worms I buy at a baitshop ever since the chick's hatched. It's so crazy to have watched their behavior around me change from total fear to now beginning to not give off danger calls/fly away when I'm near the nest.

[@sabeenamersa]

thank you so much I saved a wild robbin and I did not know what to feed him

[@RobynCulp]

I have a nest of four right outside my livingroom in a bush up against the house a foot from the window I see them through. This was quite helpful.. Thank you

[@theholisticuz1963]

Helpful

[@catherinmus9364]

Thank you for that

[@farmertyler8087]

I had a robins nest fall out of my tree and one of the baby’s survived. Wearing gloves I picked the best up and placed it off the ground. I put the baby back in it. I don’t know what I should do to keep it alive

[@Abandoned-Norway]

Worms crushed nuts.

[@farmertyler8087]

Abandoned Norway they got eaten

[@iannewton3820]

So...I put out some apple slices for them... are they not going to eat them? :-o

[@nataliamazurek3586]

What kind of insects to they eat in summer exactly?

[@javierlancissi3609]

Natalia Mazurek earthworms

[@MzChelxoxo]

The insects that aren’t poisonous.

[@H.C.Q.]

Soak some dried mealworms in water overnight till they're soft and feed them to the robins in small reptile feeding dishes.

[@kenmzungu6730]

Thank you I saved a robin. And he doesn’t want to eat

[@leapinlizard2]

Try adding a mixture of peanut butter and sunflower chips to feed your robins. ua-cam.com/video/jg5nNNKzmAo/v-deo.html

[@leapinlizard2]

Try feeding your robins a mixture of peanut butter cracked sunflower seeds and cornmeal year-round. I have quite a few videos of robins eating this mix. ua-cam.com/video/zP5iBl-_ptk/v-deo.html

[@bodgep]

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