The Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus is an unassuming thrush to look at. Guttatus is Latin for “speckled” and the Hermit Thrush is certainly speckled...
Forest Park, Queens, New York, April 2008 On Thursday, a day that I didn’t have to be at work until noon, I, of course,...
Okay, I meant to write an entertaining post. I honestly did. But I have been sick with different kinds and forms of cold since the...
You may already know about this, but I was not aware that a pure white Blackbird (the thrush, not the icterid) can be found...
It is not every day that a new species of bird is described, and this definitely does not tend to happen with birds that...
It was a dark and stormy night. Turdus “Blacky” Merula sat near the trunk of the small evergreen in the backyard that was his...
Sitting on my folks’ deck on a summer evening, after the sun has already dropped below the Catskill Mountains the song trills from darkened...
The national bird of Costa Rica is the Clay-colored Thrush, perhaps my favorite decision for a national bird of any country’s. The Yigüirro, as...
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