Why are robins eggs blue?
Just about all thrush eggs are at least partly blue. It’s hard to say why. Perhaps the bluish- green in the shade of the nest makes them appear camouflaged in the dappled light of tree branches. Q: Why are they called robins? A: When the first English-speaking settlers came to America, they were often homesick. There’s a little brightly-colored, friendly bird there called a robin-redbreast. It isn’t related to our robin, and is more brightly colored than our bird, but because they both have some reddish on the breast, the settlers started calling ours a robin. “Robin” is an affectionate form of the name “Robert,” and was just a nickname for their bird at first. Q: Why do robins have an orange stomach? A: No one knows why some birds have bright colors or bold patterns, except to make them look more attractive to possible mates and more healthy and fit than other birds. I guess they have reddish undersides for the same reason that some kids have reddish hair. When I find out why that is,
