#71 Wood Thrush

The Wood Thrush’s flute-like song is a bewitching hallmark of eastern forests in the spring and summer; as Thoreau once wrote, “It changes all hours to an eternal morning.” You can find them foraging for invertebrate prey on the forest floor, where leaves match their reddish-brown backs. Wood Thrushes have experienced major population declines, in part because of forest fragmentation, which makes them susceptible to cowbird nest parasitism