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 ...

There are people in Connecticut who think the most beautiful song in the bird world is the song of the wood thrush — a flute-like ee-o-lay heard at dawn and dusk in spring and early summer. Wood ...

Not everyone appreciates being up and about at 5 a.m. But with long days that we now have at this time in June with sunrise at nearly 5:15 a.m., the day gets off to an early start. Typically, this is ...

Wood thrush are notorious songsters, with a melodious, flutelike call that is characteristic of eastern hardwood forests. But like many birds, their populations are in decline. Almost 3 billion birds ...