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Category: wood thrush

September 3, 2016

Songbird Journeys

For those of us who appreciate songbirds, September is the saddest month. That’s when most of them start their long journeys south. Gone are the songs of spring and early summer, the raising of youngsters, even, in some cases, their bright spring colors. A few songbirds, such as eastern towhees and yellow-rumped warblers, migrate no […]

Posted in common cuckoo, geolocators, gray catbird, purple martin, veery, wood thrush. Tagged migration. 1 Comment
July 1, 2000

Minstrel of the Woods

I don’t have to leave this planet to hear the music of the spheres. Surely, listening to wood thrushes singing is as ethereal an experience as any mortal can hope for on earth. Many evenings, when I step outside, wood thrush song envelops me and it seems as if all the world’s wood thrushes are […]

Posted in Animal Behavior, bird song, Brush Mountain/ Plummer’s Hollow, Conservation, Forest Issues, wood thrush. 2 Comments
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