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Study highlights the interplay of song development and territorial behavior in winter quarters. Under the Tanzanian skies, some thrush nightingale males reside in close proximity to each other, a ...

The song of the Swainson’s thrush defies description — three low notes followed by an upward burble in a cautionary key, like a sound you might hear in space, as if R2D2 sang a piece by Mozart. While ...

After some 20 years of theorizing, a scientist is publicly renouncing the “beautiful hypothesis” that male birds’ sexy songs could indicate the quality of their brains. Knowing that something about ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In 1868, the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that differences in plumage coloration between male and female birds of the same species were likely the result of sexual selection: ...

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 ...

What Does a Swainson’s Thrush Look Like? “What is this bird?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Mark Rice of Dallas, Texas. Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “The compact shape, brown back, ...