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 ...

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 ...

Migratory songbirds are disappearing, and though conservationists are examining several possible reasons such as climate change, loss of habitat, acid rain and light pollution, a key piece of the ...

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 ...

THIS FIRST COLUMN for 2017 was retrieved from past columns. This will be the 50th year of the column’s existence and looking back over five decades can be enlightening. A few days before writing this ...

Call it beginner's luck. On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls. Sanchez, a 41 ...

The hermit thrush prefers to sing in harmonic series, a fundamental component of human music Helen Thompson A hermit thrush perches on a branch in the Pennsylvania woods. Its songs have long been ...

Michael Sanchez had traveled from Vancouver, Washington to northwest Oregon last week to take photographs of waterfalls – not birds. An amateur photographer, Sanchez, 41, figured the scenic sites of ...

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 ...