Aside from their enchanting song and long-distance fortitude, Swainson’s thrushes (like other birds) play overlooked roles in ...

THIS MUST BE my favorite time of year. We’ve emerged from hibernation and all danger of frost has passed. The birds have returned from the distant South to our forests to nest. The ones that survived ...

While several species of the thrush family are quite visible, like the bluebirds and robin, there are also a number of shy, secluded, secretive thrushes as well. The Swainson's thrush is one of them.

It's beautiful, ethereal: When we hear the sound of the Swainson’s thrush in the Pacific Northwest's woods, we know our summer is truly here. Our bird is back, with its signature song gracing our long ...

Swainson’s thrush looks a bit like a small brown version of its familiar cousin the American robin. Its gray-brown back contrasts with a pale, spotted chest and pale “spectacle” markings around its ...

Aim To provide a spatially explicit model of how geographic distributions at the last glacial maximum (LGM) and post-glacial colonization routes shaped current migratory pathways in the Swainson's ...

In a nondescript spot in the western Angeles National Forest known as Bear Divide, Ben Szanto on Tuesday, May 9, walked quickly, carrying in a cloth pouch a songbird he plucked from mesh nets that had ...

SEATTLE – Among the most prominent avian singers this time of year are our migrant visitors, some of whom have traveled thousands of miles, bringing vibrant color and song. Migration allows birds to ...

I was visiting a friend up in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, and right outside the window, about 20 feet up in a hop hornbeam tree, was a nest with two parents busily feeding and sitting on babies. The ...

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 ...

Bicknell's Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) is a songbird that breeds in New England mountaintop forests threatened by climate change. Research forthcoming in The Condor: Ornithological Applications shows ...