You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. My young friend Ruthie (age 8 ½) sent me pictures of a robin-sized bird with ...

Any consideration of the emblematic bird of summer in the Red River Valley surely must include the brown thrasher. This is the personal choice of Suezette, my partner, and that alone weighs heavily in ...

It was one of those stunning September mornings. The air was crisp, the sky was full of high clouds, and a light dew had fallen during the night. My walk through the meadow required a little care to ...

While ambling aimlessly along wooded trails at Kleb Woods County Park near Tomball, I glimpsed a brown thrasher rustling softly in the brushy understory. Had it not been for the bird's gleaming orange ...

The brown thrasher is a big, bright, beautiful bird with captivating yellow eyes. This particular bird landed on a dead tree branch about 20 feet in front of me. / PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up for ...

"This afternoon brown thrashers are very numerous and musical. It is a bird that appears to make a business of singing for its own amusement. There is great variety in its strains." -- Henry David ...

Charles Seabrook’s “Wild Georgia” column appears weekly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The brown thrasher, a big, foxy red songbird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types, became ...

"This afternoon brown thrashers are very numerous and musical. It is a bird that appears to make a business of singing for its own amusement. There is great variety in its strains." —Henry David ...

At this time of year, brown thrashers venture onto our lawns. The thrashers are conspicuous at other times, as well, but it is now, with the young out of the nests, that thrashers really relax and ...

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 ...

Whenever I am in one of those long stretches of highway and cell coverage is spotty, my mind often takes to rambling. Recently, on a drive a couple hours south on U.S. 441, I kept noticing the variety ...