So, there are thrushes in general: sweet-voiced, inconspicuously-colored forest birds. The hermit thrush matches this description perfectly, being a small, sparrow-sized bird with a plain brown ...

Hermit Thrush The American robin is in the thrush family, a group of birds known for their musical songs . The hermit thrush lacks the robin’s reddish coloring but the face, eye ring and beak ...

The last state to pick its bird was Arizona in 1973. So, grab your bird-watching binoculars and get to know the 50 official state birds in the U.S., from Alabama to Wyoming (and Washington, D.C., too) ...

Creating the Perfect Thrush Habitat. The key to attracting these shy birds lies in the placement and structure of your compost area. I’ve found that positioning your pile near the edge of your ...

Other thrushes that breed in our region include the Wood Thrush and Hermit Thrush. They spend most of their time on the ground and have brown backs and spotted breasts.

Hermit thrushes: These forest dwellers look a bit like tawny brown robins — and that’s because the two species are closely related.But don’t expect to find hermit thrushes scarfing worms in ...

Four years after people took up bird-watching during the pandemic, there's a spate of new books about birding capitalizing on this heightened interest.

We were quietly tromping through the Pittsford woods on one of the town’s wonderful hiking trails when I heard it — the call of Vermont’s state bird, the hermit thrush. Nicknamed America’s nightingale ...

Over 2½ hours, they found seven more dead birds: two hermit thrushes, a common yellowthroat, yellow-bellied sapsucker, white-throated sparrow, Tennessee warbler and Nashville warbler.