A spectrogram of a Hermit Thrush song shows the whistled introductory note (the horizontal bar at left) and the more complex song that follows. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

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 ...

Movie soundtracks often include the song of the hermit thrush to establish a mood of isolation or an outdoorsy setting. Their song has an ethereal reedy quality and lazily rises or falls, each series ...

What brings you a little bit of joy? For Indian Lake listener, Elsa Schisler it’s the melancholy song of the hermit thrush: They are brown on top with a contrasting reddish tail, pale underparts with ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been reading old bird books again. There’s something nice about the old-fashioned approach, when human appreciation for birds was allowed to be front and center. Let me show you what I mean with ...

Kathy Shearer, who resides in Emory, Virginia, sent me a recent email asking for help with bird identification. “My husband and I hear this lovely bird song in the evenings and ear-ly morning close to ...

What brings you a little bit of joy? For Indian Lake listener, Elsa Schisler it’s the melancholy song of the hermit thrush: They are brown on top with a contrasting reddish tail, pale underparts with ...