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Vol. 8 No. 3 (1977)

NOTES: ROBINS EXTENDING BREEDING RANGE INTO TUCSON

Submitted
August 24, 2025
Published
July 1, 1977

Abstract

American Robins (Turdus migratorius) have not been reported nesting in the hot desert areas of the southwest. On 18 June 1965 I found a pair nesting in a White Mulberry (Morus alba) near the University of Arizona in central Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (Snider 1965). The resident of the property told me a pair had successively bred there for 2 or 3 years. In 1966 a pair nested in the same tree and in the late spring of 1967 I saw a pair in the vicinity but a nest was not located. 

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