- Baby Robins are uglier than ducks and chicks, because they have not incubated as long.

- Eggs are sky blue, and a little over an inch long.

- They are helpless at birth, with a little white down.

- Females build a classic nest. It is built with twigs and reinforced with mud.

- Only 25% of babies live to survive through November.

- Robin roosts can be huge, sometimes including one quarter million birds during winter.

- They eat more worms during the morning, and fruit later in the day.

- If they eat too much honey suckle they get intoxicated.

- Their nest sites are typically on one or several horizontal branches hidden under one layer of dense leaves.

- They can live up to14 years of age.