The wood thrush is a handsome bird, if not quite beautiful. It has rich reddish-chestnut upper parts -- head, back, wings and tail -- with the head more reddish than the rest. Its under parts are ...

Surely the most beautiful sound in the forest is that of the wood thrush song. Likened to the ethereal notes of a flute duet, the song's three varying parts always include one signature constant: the ...

My previous article entitled “Summer Birdsong” ended prematurely without naming the featured bird-concert soloist. Fortunately for you readers, I survived the oversight long enough to pen this “reveal ...

At dusk in North American forests, wood thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) fill forests with a rising and falling "ee-oh-lay" song with a strange reverb. Like Tuvan throat singers, these pot-bellied ...

If you ask Georgia birders what bird has the sweetest song during spring and summer, their answer most likely will be the wood thrush. Some even believe the wood thrush’s song is the most beautiful ...

Wood thrushes are disappearing from eastern forests. The birds fly to Central America each fall and return in the spring. To understand why their numbers are dropping, scientists attached tiny GPS ...

Researchers have created the first migratory connectivity map produced for a songbird, using tracking from both breeding and winter sites. They were able to trace the route taken by wood thrushes from ...

The Hermit Thrush population is doing well and is, in fact, increasing, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. I wish the same could be said of all bird species, or even all of the ...

SEVERAL years ago, while reading in an old number of the Atlantic Monthly an admirable description by Wilson Flagg of the song of the hermit thrush, I came upon the following sentence : “ I have not ...

Countless thousands of leaves keep the secrets of birds in a forest. In the woods creeping in on my house from all sides, I have only one weapon to neutralize all that deep shade: sharp hearing I’m ...