What is the range of the American robin?
A. The American robin is found over most of North America. See its range map Q. What is the robin’s habitat? A. Robins can be found in a wide range of habitats. You can find them in marshes, fields, forest borders, orchards, hedges, cut-over woods, gardens, urban, suburban, and rural yards, and parks. Q. What is the robin’s role in the ecosystem? A. Robins are omnivores. They serve as predators mostly of insects and worms, but also of small snakes and other small reptiles and amphibians. They are also fruit and berry eaters. Sometimes they eat a berry in one place, and then fly away. When they poop, their droppings often contain the seeds of these berries, so the robins can “plant” them in new places. Robins are in turn eaten by foxes, bobcats, hawks, shrikes, and owls, and crows and blue jays often take their eggs and babies. These are all natural predators. House cats, which are not natural predators because they are fed by humans and maintained at an artificially high population, ki
