Surely the most beautiful sound in the forest is that of the wood thrush song. Likened to the ethereal notes of a flute duet, the song's three varying parts always include one signature constant: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lina Rifai spent the last two summers driving central Indiana’s dark highways in the early hours before dawn. She pulled into ...

The wood thrush’s song is one of the most beautiful among eastern birds, and its flute-like warble is one of the reasons Vitek Jirinec picked this species to study. “It’s a charismatic species,” he ...

Lina Rifai spent the last two summers driving central Indiana’s dark highways in the early hours before dawn. She pulled into forests and Fish & Wildlife areas, unpacked her field supplies, and set ...

Wood thrush are notorious songsters, with a melodious, flutelike call that is characteristic of eastern hardwood forests. But like many birds, their populations are in decline. Almost 3 billion birds ...