The wood thrush’s song is one of the most beautiful among eastern birds, and its flute-like warble is one of the reasons Vitek Jirinec picked this species to study. “It’s a charismatic species,” he ...

Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff put a Motus tag on a wood thrush to track its migration, in the hopes of learning important information about the bird. (Photo courtesy of DNR's YouTube ...

Not everyone appreciates being up and about at 5 a.m. But with long days that we now have at this time in June with sunrise at nearly 5:15 a.m., the day gets off to an early start. Typically, this is ...

I was visiting a friend up in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, and right outside the window, about 20 feet up in a hop hornbeam tree, was a nest with two parents busily feeding and sitting on babies. 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 ...

When I got out of my car at the Schuylkill Center last Thursday morning, I was immediately greeted by one of the happiest sounds of the forest: the melodic church-organ voice of the wood thrush. A ...

Readers of this column may recall my fondness for bluebirds and the bluebird boxes on our property in Putnam. The bluebird is one of the more familiar species of the thrush family, a diverse group ...

The American Robin is a ubiquitous bird with a distinctive orange breast and gray-brown back. It can be seen hopping on lawns, perching in bushes and building nests in urban, suburban and rural ...

The bird to associate with last week's weather is the hermit thrush. This thrush is an early migrant. It's not abundant, by any means, but sometimes it occurs in quite large numbers. That happened ...