Sitting against a tree in the spring woods dressed head-to-toe in camouflage may not be the way most people spend a May morning — except for spring gobbler hunters. But there are bonuses to the sport ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Wood thrushes, native songbirds in decline, are migrating south. Researchers who spent the summer tagging the species are ...

At dusk in North American forests, wood thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) fill forests with a rising and falling "ee-oh-lay" song with a strange reverb. Like Tuvan throat singers, these pot-bellied ...

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 ...

If you ask Georgia birders what bird has the sweetest song during spring and summer, their answer most likely will be the wood thrush. Some even believe the wood thrush’s song is the most beautiful ...

The Hermit Thrush population is doing well and is, in fact, increasing, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. I wish the same could be said of all bird species, or even all of the ...

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 ...