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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We investigated dispersal opportunities for the endangered pondberry, Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae). In 199 hours of observation at 5 fruiting colonies in the Delta National Forest, Sharkey County, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across their broad North American distribution, Hermit Thrushes (Catharus guttatus) exhibit extensive yet subtle intraspecific variation in morphology and diverse migration patterns, causing ...

During early evening or morning hours in June and July, Cascade east slope forests echo with the lovely and haunting flutings of the hermit thrush, ascribed by some as one of the finest North American ...

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 ...