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    "headline": "Robin spring song clip from Bird Watching HQ passes 16,000 YouTube views in late October",
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    "articleBody": "A 26-second clip of an American robin whistling its full “cheerily, cheer up” spring song has drawn more than 16,000 YouTube views in about two days, landing in the last week of October, a season when ornithologists say robins mostly stop singing. The short went up on Monday, October 26, on Bird Watching HQ, a birding channel, under the title “Listen to an American Robin Singing Its Classic Spring Song.” The channel credits the recordings to Stan Tekiela of NatureSmart. When we checked the upload on Wednesday afternoon US Eastern time, it showed 16,810 views. A spring song out of season The timing is the odd part. Song in this species belongs to the breeding calendar. The University of Minnesota’s Season Watch project notes that robins in Minnesota do not generally sing year-round and treat song as the first yearly sign that courtship has started. In fall and winter the birds switch from earthworms to fruit and travel in groups. Those groups can be enormous. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes winter roosts holding up to a quarter-million birds, and the National Audubon Society’s field guide says fall and winter robins may roam by the hundreds, gathering wherever berries are thick. What you hear from such a flock is chatter and low cuck notes, not the proud solo in the clip. Still, the occasional autumn singer turns up. Laura Erickson, host of the For the Birds radio program, described meeting one outside the Cornell Lab in Ithaca, New York, on October 23, 2008: a lone robin “sitting high atop a tree in full spring song” while a chattering flock fed nearby. Her best guess pointed to day length. In late October the daylight hours roughly match those of late February or early March, when robins start gearing up to breed, so a bird’s hormones could be nudged the same way. She also floated simpler options, such as a sunny morning after days of rain. What the robin is saying Cornell describes the song as about 10 clear whistles built from a few repeated syllables, rising and falling in pitch at a steady beat before a pause. At dawn the bird speeds it up. Audubon calls it one of the earliest songs at first light in spring and summer. Males reach the nesting grounds before females and stake out territory by singing, sometimes backing that up with a fight. The calls are a different vocabulary. Cornell lists a mumbled cuck or tuk for keeping in touch, a sharp yeep or peek when alarmed, and a rising chirr that can sound like laughter. Nesting females add a bill clack if you come too close. Our quick guide to robin sounds this fall A long, steady run of whistled phrases from one high perch: song, rare after summer but possible on a bright morning. Soft cuck or tuk notes from a busy treetop flock: contact calls, the normal fall soundtrack. A sharp, single yeep or peek: an alarm, often aimed at a cat or hawk. A rising, laughing chirr: another call, not a song. How the clip holds up As a reference recording, it does its job. The phrases in the description, “cheerily, cheer-up, cheer-up, cheerily,” line up closely with the way Cornell and Audubon write the song down, and the title is honest that this is a spring sound rather than something captured this week. There are gaps. The post gives no date or place for the recordings, so listeners cannot tell whether they hear one bird or a stitched sample, and it is a teaser that points viewers to a longer sounds video on the same channel. Anyone who opens a window after watching should also expect a letdown: a late-October backyard is far more likely to offer flock chatter than this kind of performance. Patience pays off. Audubon notes that the “first robin of spring” may be a bird that spent the winter only a few miles away, and Season Watch records for three northern Minnesota counties put the average first robin sighting at March 22, with the earliest on February 13, 2012. Further reading Season Watch: American robin (University of Minnesota) Wikipedia: American robin Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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