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 ...

Movie soundtracks often include the song of the hermit thrush to establish a mood of isolation or an outdoorsy setting. Their song has an ethereal reedy quality and lazily rises or falls, each series ...

In a lush woodland with trees painted all shades of green and ponds of glass, a hermit thrush sang her song every day, from dawn to dusk. Her song sounded like wind chimes blowing gently in the crisp ...

The ferns drip with cold water, the moss glows and invisible dissonances ring out in the redwood-tethered fog. The harmony is strange, and there is no melody: the chords are isolated and enisled in a ...

Lina Rifai spent the last two summers driving central Indiana’s dark highways in the early hours before dawn. She pulled into forests and Fish & Wildlife areas, unpacked her field supplies, and set ...

Study highlights the interplay of song development and territorial behavior in winter quarters. Under the Tanzanian skies, some thrush nightingale males reside in close proximity to each other, a ...