Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush recently has made him the envy of the birding world. It's the kind of discovery most avid birders wait their whole lives to find: ...

An ovenbird (left) and a Swainson’s thrush (right) marked the scientists’ first catches of the morning on Aug. 4. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Every spring, the Bicknell’s thrush, a small, brown ...

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 ...

Wood thrush are notorious songsters, with a melodious, flutelike call that is characteristic of eastern hardwood forests. But like many birds, their populations are in decline. Almost 3 billion birds ...

Michael Sanchez had traveled from Vancouver, Washington to northwest Oregon last week to take photographs of waterfalls – not birds. An amateur photographer, Sanchez, 41, figured the scenic sites of ...

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What Does a Townsend’s Solitaire Look Like? This relatively under-the-radar bird can be tricky to tell apart from other small, grayish birds, but there are a few key features birders can look for.

A few species of birds can sing in an off-beat 'swing time' like jazz musicians, researchers have found. Some male thrushes may do this to make their calls to mates more noticeable or even to help ...

There is a quiet bird of winter that appears each year outside my door. It is solitary and discrete — no flocking sparrow or clamoring jay. This bird blends in, wrapped in russet, its cloudy breast ...

These amazing photographs show the moment a mother bird saved her chicks from being washed away by using her own body as a dam. The mistle thrush had unwittingly built her nest on top of a downpipe, ...