All the brown-backed thrushes can be shy and hard to see, but the Gray-cheek is perhaps the most elusive. During migration it hides in dense woods, slipping away when a birder approaches. On its far ...

Extremely similar to the Gray-cheeked Thrush, this bird was only recently recognized as a distinct species. It has a limited summer range in the northeast, from upstate New York to Nova Scotia and ...

The Fieldfare is a large and striking bird. This chunky thrush has a grey head, lower-back and rump and chestnut upper-back and wings. Its tail is black and its heavily spotted breast sits on a warm ...

The Orange-headed Thrush has a pale orange head and underparts, contrasting with grey or greenish-brown upperparts. Its wings feature a white patch, and the tail appears dark. The bird has a blackish ...

The Bicknell's thrush uses a unique and ingenious breeding system among birds: Both sexes mate with multiple partners in a season — resulting in egg clutches fathered by several different males. This ...

Typically bold, buffy eye ring and supraloral patch of most Swainson’s thrushes distinctive ... Sides and flanks olive-gray. Tail similar in color to upperparts in eastern subspecies, more ...

A distinctive, potbellied bird ... typical of terrestrial thrushes. Adult: depending on sex and subspecies, head, with white eye arcs, varies from jet black to gray, with white supercilia and ...

Bicknell’s thrush is one of the rarest songbirds in North America. It is the only bird that breeds exclusively in northeastern North America (eastern Quebec, the Maritimes and New England). This ...