SEVERAL years ago, while reading in an old number of the Atlantic Monthly an admirable description by Wilson Flagg of the song of the hermit thrush, I came upon the following sentence : “ I have not ...

The wood thrush’s song is one of the most beautiful among eastern birds, and its flute-like warble is one of the reasons Vitek Jirinec picked this species to study. “It’s a charismatic species,” he ...

APPRECIATION of the natural world depends on how we engage and work our senses beyond the ordinary. With the fusion of spring and summer now under way, our senses are presented daily with interesting ...

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 ...

In the woods the other day — redwoods and coastal oaks — I stopped to listen to a Swainson’s thrush, a bird more often heard than seen. Usually its song is tempered by distance, its maker hidden in ...

As if at the flick of a switch bird song fills the lane. So loud and powerful is it that I am disoriented, my senses blurred to everything else. Lambs running in gangs across the field, buzzards ...

The songs of the hermit thrush, a common North American songbird, follow principles found in much human music -- namely the harmonic series. Researchers are the first to demonstrate note selection ...

Surely the most beautiful sound in the forest is that of the wood thrush song. Likened to the ethereal notes of a flute duet, the song's three varying parts always include one signature constant: the ...

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 ...

My previous article entitled “Summer Birdsong” ended prematurely without naming the featured bird-concert soloist. Fortunately for you readers, I survived the oversight long enough to pen this “reveal ...