Learn what a hermit thrush looks like and where to find one. Also find out what the bird's song sounds like and what the bird eats.

There is a quiet bird of winter that appears each year outside my door. It is solitary and discrete — no flocking sparrow or clamoring jay. This bird blends in, wrapped in russet, its cloudy breast ...

During early evening or morning hours in June and July, Cascade east slope forests echo with the lovely and haunting flutings of the hermit thrush, ascribed by some as one of the finest North American ...

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 your hermit is of the northern woods, Maine or New Brunswick, the wood thrush will not be found there. In its common habitat, the hermit thrush is considered, as most writers state, a bird of ...

“It’s a human thing to think we invented music,” says Yianni Kourmadas. “But other animals practice it as well. The hermit thrush, for instance, has a sophisticated grasp on music, and uses ...

The bird to associate with last week's weather is the hermit thrush. This thrush is an early migrant. It's not abundant, by any means, but sometimes it occurs in quite large numbers. That happened ...

Movie soundtracks often include the song of the hermit thrush to establish a mood of isolation or an outdoorsy setting. Their song has an ethereal reedy quality and lazily rises or falls, each series ...

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 ...