The wood thrush’s song is one of the most beautiful among eastern birds, and its flute-like warble is one of the reasons Vitek Jirinec picked this species to study. “It’s a charismatic species,” he ...

The ordinary can result in the extraordinary. For proof here's a fresh tale, certified and true, from northern Wisconsin. Tim Oksiuta of Moquah was out birding Feb. 14 in Ashland. Nothing unusual ...

Sitting against a tree in the spring woods dressed head-to-toe in camouflage may not be the way most people spend a May morning — except for spring gobbler hunters. But there are bonuses to the sport ...

As I came to the edge of the woods, Thrush music -- hark! Now if it was dusk outside, Inside it was dark. Too dark in the woods for a bird By sleight of wing To better its perch for the night, Though ...

One of our most familiar songbirds has suffered long-term declines. The bird in question is the song thrush which makes its presence known by a sweet, if repetitive song usually delivered from high ...

Many years ago, I was walking through a lovely old-growth stand of northern hardwoods on a glacial moraine hillside in northeastern Connecticut, conducting a bird survey for a proposed residential ...

In the foreground are fields and hedgerows, beyond that bog and woodland. It was a mistake to put the computer there, because I’m continually being distracted by things happening outside. The other ...

A camera set up to capture images of Scottish wildcats in Sutherland has photographed a bird species rarely seen in Scotland. The White's thrush breeds mainly in Siberia and Asia. It was photographed ...