Kathy Shearer, who resides in Emory, Virginia, sent me a recent email asking for help with bird identification. “My husband and I hear this lovely bird song in the evenings and ear-ly morning close to ...

There is a quiet bird of winter that appears each year outside my door. It is solitary and discrete — no flocking sparrow or clamoring jay. This bird blends in, wrapped in russet, its cloudy breast ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. “Ecstasy on the wing” is an apt description of our brown thrasher, songbird of the ...

With nearly 14 1/2 hours of daylight, we enter May. No other month gives us happenings of this growing season like those of May. It is a month of abundant spring wildflowers under trees in the open ...

An ovenbird (left) and a Swainson’s thrush (right) marked the scientists’ first catches of the morning on Aug. 4. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Every spring, the Bicknell’s thrush, a small, brown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevins) is a west coast Thrush that visits eastern Canada only occasionally. It is a bird that ...