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 ...

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 ...

We were quietly tromping through the Pittsford woods on one of the town’s wonderful hiking trails when I heard it — the call of Vermont’s state bird, the hermit thrush. Nicknamed America’s nightingale ...