Male Wood Thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) attend their nests by perching near its rim, a behavior common to many species and presumed to be for the purpose of guarding eggs or young in the nest. We ...
A pair of color-banded Wood Thrushes in suburban Baltimore remained together through two broods of three young each; nesting success was 100 per cent. The second nest was built 90 yards ...
We hiked for about an hour Sunday before reaching the hallowed ground. Along the way, we were accompanied by the melodic songs of wood thrush, red-eyed and blue-headed vireos, scarlet tanager, ...
The map shows an extraordinary journey: A male wood thrush captured last summer in northern Washington County traveled more than 2,100 miles to a forest east of Mexico City — and back again. The ...
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 ...
If you ask Georgia birders what bird has the sweetest song during spring and summer, their answer most likely will be the wood thrush. Some even believe the wood thrush’s song is the most beautiful ...
The wood thrush’s song is one of the most beautiful among eastern birds, and its flute-like warble is one of the reasons Vitek Jirinec picked this species to study. “It’s a charismatic species,” he ...
The wood thrush is a handsome bird, if not quite beautiful. It has rich reddish-chestnut upper parts -- head, back, wings and tail -- with the head more reddish than the rest. Its under parts are ...