In a lush woodland with trees painted all shades of green and ponds of glass, a hermit thrush sang her song every day, from dawn to dusk. Her song sounded like wind chimes blowing gently in the crisp ...

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 ...

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 ...

Movie soundtracks often include the song of the hermit thrush to establish a mood of isolation or an outdoorsy setting. Their song has an ethereal reedy quality and lazily rises or falls, each series ...

WHEN from some deep, secluded wood you hear the rich, flute-like notes of a “ bird in the solitude singing,” turn instantly from the path, follow in silence that enticing voice, and you may at last ...

Males of this species dance around and display a large and colorful lyre-shaped tail when they sing, and, like the mockingbird, they mimic the songs of other birds. George does not disappoint. Like ...

Birds of a species converse from tree to tree for the perpetuation of their kind. In literature, too, birds of a species may converse, though their impulses are imaginative, not biological. In a poem ...