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  Hermit Thrush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) is a medium-sized North American thrush.
The Hermit Thrush's song[1] is ethereal and flute-like, constructed from a descending musical phrase repeated at different pitches.
Walt Whitman construes the Hermit Thrush as a symbol of the American voice, poetic and otherwise, in his elegy for Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,"[2] one of the fundamental texts in the American literary canon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermit_thrush   (282 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wood thrush
Genera Catharus Hylocichla The American thrushes and nightingale-thrushes which are the subject of this article are the small, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genera Catharus and Hylocichla of the thrush family Turdidae.
The Wood Thrush is the official bird of the District of Columbia.
Although the Wood Thrush is brightest on its head and nape, the Hermit Thrush has the warmest coloring on its tail, and the upperparts of the Veery are uniformly colored.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wood-thrush   (782 words)

  
 Thrush, Birds, Thrush, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia
Thrushes are found throughout the world, except in New Zealand and Antarctica, but are most numerous in the Old World.
Thrushes are from 10 to 33 cm (4 to 13 in) long and have stout legs--with a characteristic scale arrangement called a booted tarsus--and stout feet.
The wood thrush, Hylocichla mustelina, is a familiar North American thrush.
www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=96   (189 words)

  
 BioKIDS: American robin (Turdus migratorius) : Information
American robins are native to the Nearctic region.
American robins feed on a mixture of fruits, berries, earthworms, and insects such as beetle grubs, caterpillars, and grasshoppers.
American robins are one of the first birds to begin laying eggs and normally have two or three sets of babies, or broods, in each breeding season.
www.biokids.umich.edu /critters/information/Turdus_migratorius.html   (1287 words)

  
 Thrush page
Thrushes are small to medium-sized songbirds that have ten primaries and a turdine 'thumb' on the syrinx.
These large thrushes sing lovely songs; they hop on lawns listening for earthworms and pull them from the soft earth; and their nests can often be easily found.
The Varied Thrush of western North America breeds in dark woods of the northwest and is so shy that it's prolonged note on a minor scale is often the only evidence it is around.
www.montereybay.com /creagrus/thrushes.html   (1524 words)

  
 Definition of Thrush from dictionary.net
Note: Among the best-known European species are the song thrush or throstle (Turdus musicus), the missel thrush (see under Missel), the European redwing, and the flbird.
Stone thrush, the missel thrush; -- said to be so called from its marbled breast.
Thrush tit, any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds of the genus Cochoa.
www.dictionary.net /thrush   (267 words)

  
 American thrush - TheBestLinks.com - Animal, Bird, Chordate, Genus, ...
American thrush, Animal, Bird, Chordate, Genus, Passerine, Turdidae, American...
The American thrushes and nightingale-thrushes which are the subject of this article are the small, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genera Catharus and Hylocichla of the thrush family Turdidae.
These are the typical New World genera, although representatives of other genera, such as the American Robin, a true thrush, also occur.
www.thebestlinks.com /American_thrush.html   (122 words)

  
 Catharus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catharus is a genus of birds in the thrush family Turdidae.
It comprises the small, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous thrushes of North America and the nightingale-thrushes of Central and South America
This is a typical New World thrush genus, although representatives of other genera, such as the true thrushes, Turdus also occur, especially in Central and South America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_thrush   (117 words)

  
 BirdWeb - Bird Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The song and call of the Swainson's Thrush are quite distinctive, and may help a birder to locate this thrush that usually stays under cover.
Two subspecies of Swainson's Thrush occur in Washington, the russet-backed form in western Washington and the southeast Cascades, and the olive-backed form found in eastern Washington and the northeast Cascades.
Swainson's Thrushes are common in forested regions throughout the state, especially at low to moderate elevations in western Washington.
www.birdweb.org /birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=352   (588 words)

  
 American Robin or Migratory Thrush
AMERICAN ROBIN or MIGRATORY THRUSH, Turdus migratorius, Nutt.
AMERICAN ROBIN or MIGRATORY THRUSH, Turdus migratorius, Aud.
Young with the fore neck, breast, and sides pale reddish, spotted with dusky, the upper parts darker than in the adult.
www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F12_G3a.html   (2707 words)

  
 Audubon WatchList - Wood Thrush
Wood Thrush is a fairly common host of Brown-headed Cowbird eggs; the effects of brood parasitism on Wood Thrush reproductive success are most extreme in fragmented forests of the Midwest.
Wood Thrush has become a species of conservation concern, and in the process, it has been established as a symbol of the decline of Neotropical songbirds in the forests of eastern North America.
Wood Thrush is listed as a priority species in Partners in Flight's "Bird Conservation Plan for the Ohio Hills," one of the very few areas where populations of the species have been stable (http://www.partnersinflight.org).
audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=222   (909 words)

  
 Thrush (bird) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World.
They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground.
Traditionally it included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but now often either that group or the whole family is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrush_%28bird%29   (168 words)

  
 American Robin Adult - Whatbird.com
American Robin Adult: Large, familiar North American thrush with gray-brown upperparts, rich red-brown breast, and white lower belly and undertail coverts.
American Robin Adult: Breeds from Alaska east to Newfoundland and south to California, Texas, Arkansas, and South Carolina.
● Breeding and nesting: American Robin Adult: Three to five blue-green eggs are laid in a well-made cup of mud reinforced with grass and twigs, lined with softer grass, and built in a tree or on a ledge.
identify.whatbird.com /obj/212/_/American_Robin_Adult.aspx   (656 words)

  
 Search Results for "thrush"
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
...A large plump thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) of wooded areas of eastern North America, having a reddish-brown head and a spotted cream-colored breast....
...A North American bird (Catharus guttatus) having brownish plumage, a spotted breast, a reddish tail, and a distinctive melodious song....
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&x=10&y=12&query=thrush   (282 words)

  
 BirdWeb - Bird Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Varied Thrush is a bird of thick, damp, mossy coniferous forests.
Varied Thrushes are currently still common, but are vulnerable to loss of habitat due to the cutting of forests throughout their range.
Varied Thrushes are common in conifer forests throughout the state.
www.birdweb.org /birdweb/bird_details.aspx?value=search&id=355   (537 words)

  
 Wood thrush | TutorGig.co.uk Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The American wood ibis (Tantalus loculator) is common in Florida.
Wood quail (Zool.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus and allied genera, as the red-crested wood quail (Rollulus roulroul), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers.
Wood thrush, (Zool.) (a) An American thrush (Turdus mustelinus) noted for the sweetness of its song.
www.tutorgig.co.uk /dict.jsp?keywords=Wood+thrush   (1713 words)

  
 Wood thrush | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The wood thrush is the state bird of the District of Columbia.
The word thrush can mean more than one thing Thrush bird Thrush is the common name for the bird family...
Shrike thrush, Waterthrush Thrush is also the common name for the fungal infection candidiasis or candida
www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=Wood+thrush   (490 words)

  
 eMedicine - Thrush : Article by Robert W Tolan, Jr, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Thrush may be the first sign of HIV infection; its appearance in advanced HIV indicates poor prognosis.
Mortality/Morbidity: Thrush usually is a mild and self-limited illness, although it may cause sufficient discomfort in a newborn to disrupt feeding.
Discuss thrush etiology and incidence as part of general reassurance to the parents of the healthy newborn or infant.
www.emedicine.com /ped/topic2245.htm   (2130 words)

  
 Madison Hotline Reports 2003
A HERMIT THRUSH was spotted at a private tennis court in the UW Arboretum on Monday, December 8th.
The latter bird was in a mixed flock of HOUSE FINCHES and AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES.
AMERICAN WOODCOCKS, not present in the UW Arboretum a week earlier, were performing their courtship displays shortly after sunset near the McKay Center on Friday evening, the 21st.
www.uwgb.edu /birds/wso/madhotline03.htm   (11006 words)

  
 AMRO v. EBTH page
The photo of an Eyebrowed Thrush (left) is from Attu I. in May 1982 (© Ed Greaves, used with permission).
However, note the lack of a white throat, the extensively gray neck that extends down to the upper breast, the brown back contrasting with gray head and, especially, the extensively pure white belly that extends upwards into the orange breast as an inverted "V" (this feature emphasized in Roberson 1980).
Photos: The "standard" American Robin (upper left) was photographed 4 Nov 1979 at Scottys Castle, Death Valley Nat'l Park, California; the "pale" American Robin (upper right) was at Ft. Ord, Monterey Co., California, 29 Dec 1994.
www.montereybay.com /creagrus/AMRO_v_EBTH.html   (733 words)

  
 surfbirds.com - Interview with Ren Hathway
Surfbirds For a book on Thrushes, living on the Isles of Scilly is probably a big help.
It is perfectly positioned to attract not only the regularly occurring species but also vagrants from both North America, Asia and the Mediterranean.
In my years of visiting and living on Scilly I have seen 5 species of N.American thrush and 12 species of Eurasian thrush.
www.surfbirds.com /Book%20Store/hathway.html   (880 words)

  
 2003 Eugene Oregon ~ Archive ~ Conventions ~ American Birding Association
Perfect weather, beautiful scenery, a great hotel, skilled field trip leaders, and terrific birding…; All the key ingredients for a highly successful convention came together for the ABA's nineteenth convention, held this year during the week of 2-8 June 2003.
This year, the ABA is supporting the work of the 100-year-old independent Audubon Society of Portland's Important Bird Areas (IBA) project.
All material displayed on the ABA website is subject to copyright protection either by the ABA or its associates and should not be reproduced in any form without the express prior written consent of ABA.
www.americanbirding.org /mtgs/conventions/2003eugene.html   (1916 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Weird, odd and quirky stories - Rare US thrush killed by a cat in Shetland
BIRDWATCHERS revealed yesterday that a tiny American thrush which landed in Shetland after being blown thousands of miles off course was killed by a cat.
They believe the bird, called a veery, was swept across the Atlantic during its migration from North American forests to South America for the winter.
Twitchers managed to trap the veery after it was spotted at Northdale, Unst, on September 22 and ring one of its legs.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=609&id=2034952005   (461 words)

  
 thrushes
"The song of the Hermit Thrush is the grand climax of all bird music; it is unquestionably so far removed from all the rest of the wild-wood singers' accomplishments that vaunted comparisons are invidious and wholly out of place." Etc., etc. Mathews, p.235.
"The song of Swainson's Thrush is one of the most charming examples of a harmony in suspension which it is possible to find in all the realm of music.
"The surpassing glory of the veery's song, as all lovers of American bird music may be presumed by this time to know, lies in its harmonic, double-stopping effect, -- an effect, or quality, as beautiful as it is peculiar.
www.math.sunysb.edu /~tony/birds/thrushes.html   (428 words)

  
 Charleston County Parks and Recreation
The most interesting were; 1 American Bittern, 2 adult and 1 second year Bald Eagles, 1 Cooper's Hawk, 4 Pileated Woodpeckers, 8 Cedar Waxwings, 4 Eastern Meadowlarks, and 200 American Goldfinches.
Woodpecker, 3 Pileated Woodpeckers, 1 Hermit Thrush, 15 American Robins, 8 Dark-eyed Juncos, 21 Eastern Meadowlarks, 1 Rusty Blackbird, and 60 American Goldfinches.
Flycatchers, 1 Eastern Kingbird, 1 Wood Thrush, 1 Yellow-throated Vireo, 10+ Parula Warblers, 1 Yellow-throated Warbler, 3 Pine Warblers, 5 Prothonotary Warblers, 5 Summer Tanagers, 1 Indigo Bunting, 5 Painted Buntings, and 4 Orchard Orioles.
www.ccprc.com /index.asp?NID=392   (2664 words)

  
 Crossword Puzzle Game Number 4548 (Small Grid)
African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song.
A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
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 American thrush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The American thrushes and nightingale-thrushes which are the subject of this are the small mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genera Catharus and Hylocichla of the thrush family Turdidae.
These are the typical New World genera representatives of other genera such as the American Robin a true thrush also occur.
Song of the Hermit Thrush: An Iroquois Legend (Native American Legends)
www.freeglossary.com /American_thrush   (256 words)

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