On this one, the face pattern confirms it as a Swainson’s thrush, with a bold buffy eye ring, almost as though it’s wearing a pair of spectacles.” Learn how to identify a wood thrush.

The gray-cheeked thrush just passes through, going on to breed in the far northern boreal forests. The other ones, robin, bluebird, veery, hermit and Swainson's thrush, all may breed in the region.

Not unlike the beloved song of the Wood Thrush in eastern forests, the mechanical flute of the Swainson’s Thrush is the sound of summer in the boreal forest. Summer also means it’s time again for the ...

I was sitting on the deck a few evenings ago and heard an instantly recognizable bird, the Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus). The song of this species, as well as that of the Veery (Catharus ...

Although West Virginia lacks the range of terrain and habitats found in bigger states, it is no less compelling a destination for birders. The state’s rugged, mountainous landscape is remarkable for ...

The same weather system was also presumably responsible for the Pallas's Reed Bunting found on Fair Islee, although, happily, the Eyebrowed Thrush was rather more accommodating than the bunting. This ...

How to get there Ausable Marsh is quite easy to find and quite easy to miss. Different from the more popular and more visible Ausable Point, the marsh makes up a secluded niche of wetlands just to the ...

Early fairgoers experimented with “fringy” ideas such as organic gardening, generating electricity from the sun and ...

The Cheyenne Big Day is all about counting as many species of birds as we can in one calendar day. The Cheyenne High Plains ...

On June 18, the hot shot helicopter pilots of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island received an alert from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center about an unidentified 40-year-old man suffering from ...