American Robin Calls & Songs (Learn 4 Sounds)

Being an excellent forager, American Robins are widespread and well known for their bright orange chest. These large songbirds prefer open woodlands but will live in cities or mountainous forests too. Their diet can include anything from earthworms to berries.

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American Robins have an interesting way of parenting, where the female raises the young from egg to fledgling. Then the male raises them from fledgling to the time they are ready to be on their own. While the male is doing this the female is preparing to raise another brood.

American Robin CALLS:

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Sound #1: Cheerily Song

This is the song that will wake you up in the spring as the American Robin sings in the new day. It is only appropriate that this rise and falling of 10 whistles is described as ‘cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up.’ Do you hear it?


Sound # 2: The Whinny

This sound is sometimes described as a horse’s whinny, this song can sometimes be made by a startled American Robin. It can also be two American Robins communicating.


Sound #3: ‘Cuck’

These mumbled cluck noises that American Robins make are usually communication between each other. This cluck noise can also be an alarm call given to warn others.


Sound #4: Alarm Call ‘Seer’

American Robins have a variety of songs and calls that they make. This ‘seer’ call you might hear from a female if you come close to an active nest. The female may also clack her bill in an attempt to scare you away.


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  1. This is a very good site of Robin calls.
    We have a lot of robins here on my property that eat worms all day, but the funniest story is about a Mr. Cardinal in the next comment.

  2. I own land where a male Cardinal would fly about a hundred yard counter clockwise circle all day, and he would land in the same trees, on the same branches, day in, day out, and always the same routine. A good, steadfast bird of habit, and more than likely, a good bird husband and father. So I got one of my wife’s make up mirrors and put it on one of the branches Mr. Cardinal would land on near our living room window where we could watch. Mr. Cardinal’s routine suddenly changed. The branch that he used to perch on for 10 seconds, now turned into several minutes. Then instead of staying away for several minutes like before, he would now come back in less than a minute. Mr. Cardinal would look at his right profile, then his left. Then straight on at himself. Then he would bob his head up and down & let out that single chirp cardinals are known for. But in this case, it was a chirp of being very pleased with himself and how handsome he looked. Mr. Cardinal turned into a source of extreme levity. Mrs. Cardinal also looked at herself. But unlike her husband, she was simply not that interested due to the fact she had better bird things to do and wasn’t going to waste any of her time looking in that mirror. (Quite the opposite of human females!) Anyway, Mr. Cardinal is a very Vain Bird. A bird who is impressed with his handsomeness, and a bird who absolutely just loves the sight of himself. So much in fact, that we began to worry about his fatherly duties of bringing food back to the nest for the baby cardinals. So I took the mirror down because I didn’t want to be responsible for for breaking up a little nesting family, and causing a bird divorce.
    We could almost hear Mrs. Cardinal chirping out Mr. Cardinal and we didn’t want him to get in trouble. But it sure was funny watching that vain bird! A bird who was absolutely 100% positive that he was the best looking bird on the planet! And maybe the universe!
    After giving that some thought, was he really that far away from being right?