Robin Superstition There’s an old Irish superstition about the first robin of spring, too. Supposedly, if you make a wish when you see the first robin of the new season, that wish will come true.

But the chickadee lobby would not be silenced, and there have been several attempts to roust the robin from its roost as state bird. The most recent came in 2000, when the Legislature introduced a ...

Inside Jersey American robin is a bird for all N.J. seasons Published: Jan. 24, 2016, 12:00 p.m.

Robin crowned as UK's national bird: It's aggressive, vicious, but peculiarly British They are found all over the UK, so no-one is really more than a few footsteps away from a robin at any time on ...

The robin, with an estimated population of 310 million in the U.S., is far more numerous, however, and is among the most abundant bird species in the nation, according to the Cornell Lab of ...