The bird, which is widely believed to be a blue rock thrush, is a native of Europe and Asia that has rarely – if ever – been spotted in North America. "I didn't know it was rare but I had ...

Typically bold, buffy eye ring and supraloral patch of most Swainson’s thrushes distinctive ... Breeding: mostly in deciduous and/or mixed forest; birds in western U.S. primarily nest in ...

Missouri bird migration is in full swing from April 28 to May 17, with over 41 million birds estimated to have flown over the ...

An estimated 1 billion migratory birds die each year in North America because of collisions with homes, commercial buildings, ...

The plan went something like this: Lash a Lilliputian knapsack to the back of a wild songbird called a Swainson’s thrush, release the bird to begin its grueling 8,000-mile round-trip migration ...

Surrounded by forests with towering trees, the pond attracts Izu thrushes, “mosuke misosazai,” a subspecies of winter wren, Japanese robins and other wild birds. The Ijima leaf warbler’s ...