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 ...

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, ...

Readers of this column may recall my fondness for bluebirds and the bluebird boxes on our property in Putnam. The bluebird is one of the more familiar species of the thrush family, a diverse group ...

I’ve been reading old bird books again. There’s something nice about the old-fashioned approach, when human appreciation for birds was allowed to be front and center. Let me show you what I mean with ...

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 ...