British poet, Simon Armitage describes LYR’s documentary masterpiece of meticulously placed lyrics and exquisite sounds as “a record of an extraordinary period of social history” as he and bandmates, ...

SEVERAL years ago, while reading in an old number of the Atlantic Monthly an admirable description by Wilson Flagg of the song of the hermit thrush, I came upon the following sentence : “ I have not ...

Hogshaw, Derbyshire: To hear one in December isn’t totally unheard of – any excuse to revel in that uplifting, deceptively simple sound It was unmistakable: at dawn, through the bedroom window, a ...

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The Hermit Thrush is famous for its melodiously undulating song, but we know very little about whether -- and if so, how -- its songs vary across the large swath of North America that it calls home in ...

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 hidden in ...