A new analysis of the bones in the eatery’s garbage pit challenges the elite status of thrush in the Roman diet ...

In the ruins of an old Roman city on the Spanish island of Mallorca, a team of archaeologists uncovered an unexpected glimpse into ancient eating habits. Buried in a garbage pit behind what used to be ...

Birds serve other purposes besides brightening up your yard. ... the wood thrush is a small, brown speckled bird that you'd welcome to your garden for their harmonious tones alone.

Have you ever wondered why some birds' eggs are speckled? Scientists have long wondered the same thing. The most common hypothesis is that the speckles help camouflage eggs, making them harder for ...

This bird can predict the intensity of a hurricane season. Here’s how. The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean.

That means that Sanchez's thrush either traveled roughly 500 miles south in a matter of days, or another incredibly rare bird made a historic trip to the United States at the same time.

Bird never seen in US, the blue rock thrush, reportedly spotted on Oregon coast "It became quickly apparent that this was a very unusual experience," said Michael Sanchez, whose photos of what ...

The Kentuck Festival of the Arts has had to make a change to its musical lineup, with Florence's Speckled Bird replacing Austin, Texas's Beat Root Revival.. The duo of Ben Jones and Andrea Magee ...

While a blue rock thrush was previously spotted in British Columbia in 1997, no previous records exist of such a bird anywhere in the United States, Brodie Cass Talbott, a senior educator at the ...

For the wood thrush, a speckled songster whose numbers are also in decline, a good bet is the George B. Parker Woodland, a scenic Audubon property in Coventry known for its mysterious rock cairns ...

The eggs of a brood parasite often look nothing like the eggs of its host bird, as seen here with the speckled cowbird eggs among the blue eggs of an American robin (left).

The Great Speckled Bird was born in controversy. The front page of its first issue, in March 1968, featured an illustration of then-publisher of the Atlanta Constitution Ralph McGill, alongside ...