THE scientific information which, in a popular way, is looked for in the record of ornithological studies does not altogether prevail in this bit of history. It includes, with its more exact ...

There is a quiet bird of winter that appears each year outside my door. It is solitary and discrete — no flocking sparrow or clamoring jay. This bird blends in, wrapped in russet, its cloudy breast ...

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 ...

The song of the wood thrush is described as a flutelike ee-o-lay. The hermit thrush has a voice that is clear and ethereal, still flutelike, with three or four phrases at different pitches. The song ...

I was visiting a friend up in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, and right outside the window, about 20 feet up in a hop hornbeam tree, was a nest with two parents busily feeding and sitting on babies. The ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. When I awaken before dawn each morning I stay in bed to listen to the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kathy Shearer, who resides in Emory, Virginia, sent me a recent email asking for help with bird identification. “My husband and I hear this lovely bird song in the evenings and ear-ly morning close to ...

I’ve been reading old bird books again. There’s something nice about the old-fashioned approach, when human appreciation for birds was allowed to be front and center. Let me show you what I mean with ...

The bird to associate with last week's weather is the hermit thrush. This thrush is an early migrant. It's not abundant, by any means, but sometimes it occurs in quite large numbers. That happened ...