What they eat: Invertebrates and fruit. A song thrush flicking its head to smash a snail against a stone or wall was a common sight in 1979. But their numbers have plummeted in recent decades.

Near to where this is written, a song thrush, for months it seemed, sang early morning and early evening from the topmost branch of a nearby tree. Could you bear to eat it if someone shot it ...

In the woods the other day — redwoods and coastal oaks — I stopped to listen to a Swainson’s thrush, a bird more often heard than seen. Usually its song is tempered by distance, its maker ...

As with other birds, we refer to the vocalization of the thrush as its "song" and imagine it to be an expression of joyful exuberance. It's more likely a territorial assertion -- the avian ...

What they eat: Invertebrates and fruit. A song thrush flicking its head to smash a snail against a stone or wall was a common sight in 1979. But their numbers have plummeted in recent decades.