LATE MAY IS the best time of the year to get acquainted with some of America's best songsters — our thrushes, which are some of the more difficult migrants to catch passing through the Garden State.

She’s one of the world’s most successful artists, atop the pop charts and hailed at the Grammys, where she will be performing Monday. Now British songstress Adele is being heard even in the Himalayas, ...

In 2009, researchers observed that there seemed to be two different kinds of “plain-backed thrushes” in northeastern India. They discovered that the “plain-backed thrush” found in the coniferous ...

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 ...

Learn what a veery bird looks like and where you can find one. Also find out what this thrush's song sounds like and what the ...

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 ...

Envision a misty May morning in Washington's Rock Creek Park. Spring humidity hangs in the air as sunbeams poke through the tree canopy. Then, in surround sound, a song reverberates through the forest ...

Wood thrushes are disappearing from eastern forests. The birds fly to Central America each fall and return in the spring. To understand why their numbers are dropping, scientists attached tiny GPS ...

My previous article entitled “Summer Birdsong” ended prematurely without naming the featured bird-concert soloist. Fortunately for you readers, I survived the oversight long enough to pen this “reveal ...

Most of Maine’s breeding birds are easy to see. Some aren’t. I nominate Bicknell’s thrush as the most difficult to observe. The quest to locate the elusive bird took me to a mountaintop last weekend, ...