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 ...

Living in the woods brings a variety of rewards, among them the birdsong that greets each morning and often continues throughout the day. The most welcome of all in recent weeks has been the serenade ...

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 ...

Surely the most beautiful sound in the forest is that of the wood thrush song. Likened to the ethereal notes of a flute duet, the song's three varying parts always include one signature constant: the ...

There are people in Connecticut who think the most beautiful song in the bird world is the song of the wood thrush — a flute-like ee-o-lay heard at dawn and dusk in spring and early summer. Wood ...

Lina Rifai spent the last two summers driving central Indiana’s dark highways in the early hours before dawn. She pulled into forests and Fish & Wildlife areas, unpacked her field supplies, and set ...

Study shows birds eavesdrop on owls and change their dusk singing patterns to avoid becoming potential prey. If you hear an owl hooting at dusk, don't expect to catch the flute-like song of a Veery ...

The thrush family includes beautiful species that range from classic spotted wood thrushes and colourful bluebirds to American robins. Most of these birds arrive back or fly through Southwestern ...