According to birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, the hermit thrush looks similar in appearance to the Swainson’s thrush, however, the hermit has a more reddish tail. In cold weather, it’s the ...

What Does a Veery Look Like? The veery resembles other brown thrushes but with less obvious spotting on the chest. A veery looks and sound very similar to a wood thrush. Both of these birds belt out ...

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 ...

Kathy Shearer, who resides in Emory, Virginia, sent me a recent email asking for help with bird identification. “My husband and I hear this lovely bird song in the evenings and ear-ly morning close to ...

With nearly 14 1/2 hours of daylight, we enter May. No other month gives us happenings of this growing season like those of May. It is a month of abundant spring wildflowers under trees in the open ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. “Ecstasy on the wing” is an apt description of our brown thrasher, songbird of the ...

The City Beat is a free Monday newsletter bringing Concord’s biggest local stories and city updates straight to your inbox. The American Robin is a ubiquitous bird with a distinctive orange breast and ...