The Bicknell's thrush uses a unique and ingenious breeding system among birds: Both sexes mate with multiple partners in a season — resulting in egg clutches fathered by several different males. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

The subject of this week's column is the hind end of the bird - the tail, in other words. This subject arises because during the week, I happened to see two bird species that use the tail extensively.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...