According to birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, the hermit thrush looks similar in appearance to the Swainson’s thrush, however, the hermit has a more reddish tail. In cold weather, it’s the ...

I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

Wood thrush are notorious songsters, with a melodious, flutelike call that is characteristic of eastern hardwood forests. But like many birds, their populations are in decline. Almost 3 billion birds ...

The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate? Christopher Heckscher, a professor and ...

The veery resembles other brown thrushes but with less obvious spotting on the chest. A veery looks and sound very similar to a wood thrush. Both of these birds belt out an amazing song and share rich ...

Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush recently has made him the envy of the birding world. It's the kind of discovery most avid birders wait their whole lives to find: ...

Michael Sanchez is no birder. But the 41-year-old Vancouver man has been getting into photography. So, on a trip to the coast last Sunday, he woke up before dawn and carried his new Sony camera to Hug ...

The Tennessee River Gorge Trust, other local nonprofit organizations, and state and federal wildlife agencies are collaborating on an initiative to study and conserve the wood thrush, a migratory bird ...