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 ...

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 ...

There are people in Connecticut who think the most beautiful song in the bird world is the song of the wood thrush — a flute-like ee-o-lay heard at dawn and dusk in spring and early summer. Wood ...

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 ...

Wood thrush are notorious songsters, with a melodious, flutelike call that is characteristic of eastern hardwood forests. But like many birds, their populations are in decline. Almost 3 billion birds ...

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 ...

The wood thrush is a neotropical migratory bird that spends summer in the eastern United States, with territory ranging from northern Florida up to the Great Lakes and into the Northeast. The species ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wood thrush gets ready to sing from a high perch at Hickory Hill Park in Iowa City. (Brandon Caswell/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some ...