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: ...

The bird makes its melodious whistles during early mornings and the evening, earning it the nickname ‘whistling schoolboy.’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...