Our most beautiful singers are the wood thrushes; they sing not only in the early morning but throughout the long hot June afternoons.

In recent decades, the number of wood thrushes has declined 45 percent, and the reason is unclear.

By 8 a.m. they had trapped about 10 birds, including several wood thrushes.

"The call of a wood thrush," Bunlap returned with grim satisfaction.

We could even sequence the genome of a more musical bird like the wood thrush.

In this whimsical company, only the wood thrush sings strong and true.

In particular, he wanted to study the wood thrush, a small bird with a distinctive song that was once common throughout the Northeast.

The population of wood thrushes has declined 45 percent in recent decades.

A wood thrush goes about its business of breaking my heart with its song.

I had heard the wood thrush long before.