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 ...

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 ...

LATE MAY IS the best time of the year to get acquainted with some of America's best songsters — our thrushes, which are some of the more difficult migrants to catch passing through the Garden State.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Iowa Department of Natural Resources participates in a global network that uses small tags and antenna receivers to track migratory patterns of birds, bats and insects, and it has recorded 607 ...

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 ...