THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS 



liitTJily beneficial to growing crops and should 

 he i)rotected, though it makes occasional 

 raids on cherries and strawberries, causing 

 some damage at certain seasons of the year. 



xVlthough the robin is very tame and ap- 

 proachable during the breeding season it 

 seems to change its nature in the fall, after 

 family cares are over, and frequents heavy 

 timber w^here it gathers in flocks to roost at 

 night, to sally forth in the early morning, 

 scattering out over the surrounding country 

 in search of food. While the w^estern robin, as 

 a species, is highly migratory and moves 

 south at the approach of cold weather, large 

 numbers remain to winter in the protected 

 valleys of the northwestern states. It is 

 probable however that the w^inter robins of 

 ^Yashington and Oregon are the summer 

 birds of farther north, and that our ow^n 

 summer robins spend the winter in the sun- 

 shine of southern California. 



^ Varied thrush, Ixoreus ncovius nce- 



vius. 9.50 



Distribution: Western North America; 

 breeding from northern California northward 

 to the limit of spruce forests in northern 

 Alaska; wintering from Kadiak Island south- 

 ward to southern California, and during 

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