Fact 1: Did you know that song thrushes, their nests and eggs are protected by law under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act? Fact 2: Male song thrushes attract their mates by singing to them. Fact ...

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 ...

APPRECIATION of the natural world depends on how we engage and work our senses beyond the ordinary. With the fusion of spring and summer now under way, our senses are presented daily with interesting ...

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 Mistle Thrush is bigger than the Song Thrush and has a long tail. It stands more upright, is paler in colour and has big, rounded black spots on its breast unlike the spots on the Song Thrush that ...

Once described as the finest sound in nature, the song of the North American hermit thrush has long captivated the human ear. For centuries, birdwatchers have compared it to human music – and it turns ...

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 ...