The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate? Christopher Heckscher, a professor and ...

Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush recently has made him the envy of the birding world. It's the kind of discovery most avid birders wait their whole lives to find: ...

Call it beginner's luck. On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls. Sanchez, a 41 ...

Michael Sanchez had traveled from Vancouver, Washington to northwest Oregon last week to take photographs of waterfalls – not birds. An amateur photographer, Sanchez, 41, figured the scenic sites of ...

Michael Sanchez is no birder. But the 41-year-old Vancouver man has been getting into photography. So, on a trip to the coast last Sunday, he woke up before dawn and carried his new Sony camera to Hug ...

While several species of the thrush family are quite visible, like the bluebirds and robin, there are also a number of shy, secluded, secretive thrushes as well. The Swainson's thrush is one of them.

A wood thrush gets ready to sing from a high perch at Hickory Hill Park in Iowa City. (Brandon Caswell/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some ...