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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...