I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

What Does a Veery Look Like? A veery looks and sound very similar to a wood thrush. Both of these birds belt out an amazing song and share rich cinnamon red coloration, although the veery’s spots on ...

The Hermit Thrush population is doing well and is, in fact, increasing, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. I wish the same could be said of all bird species, or even all of the ...

THIS FIRST COLUMN for 2017 was retrieved from past columns. This will be the 50th year of the column’s existence and looking back over five decades can be enlightening. A few days before writing this ...

Researchers have created the first migratory connectivity map produced for a songbird, using tracking from both breeding and winter sites. They were able to trace the route taken by wood thrushes from ...

Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush recently has made him the envy of the birding world. It's the kind of discovery most avid birders wait their whole lives to find: ...

The Bicknell's thrush uses a unique and ingenious breeding system among birds: Both sexes mate with multiple partners in a season — resulting in egg clutches fathered by several different males. This ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources participates in a global network that uses small tags and antenna receivers to track migratory patterns of birds, bats and insects, and it has recorded 607 ...