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Name: Richard
Status: other
Grade:  n/a
Location: Outside U.S.
Country: USA
Date: Winter 2011-2012
Question:
Do robin's breast turn gray during migration?


Replies:
Juvenile robin breasts are speckled with gray or brown. Their breast feathers usually molt to dull orange within a few weeks, but some may show spotted breasts into fall migration.

J. Elliott

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