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Wood Thrush Thrive In Health Forests
Migratory birds depend on habitat at both ends of their range!
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The fluting song of the Wood Thrush is an ethereal sound of summer in North America. During the breeding season, these robin-sized songsters serenade deciduous forests of the eastern U.S. and Canada. Each fall, they migrate to rainforests from southern Mexico to Panama where they call to each other from the underbrush. For Wood Thrushes, not just any woods will do. They depend on large blocks of intact forest throughout their range. We can help these virtuosic songsters by conserving and restoring woodlands throughout the Americas. That includes planting native trees in urban green spaces and buying bird-friendly coffee that’s cultivated without destroying the crucial habitats that support the Wood Thrush’s priceless song.
Support comes from Wild Delight Bird Food, offering a variety of blends designed to mimic the natural resources wild birds crave, available at Chewy.com.
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Wood Thrush Thrive In Health Forests
Adapted from a script by Dennis Paulson
This is BirdNote.
[Wood Thrush song]
The fluting song of the Wood Thrush is an ethereal sound of summer in North America.
[Wood Thrush song]
From April to September, these robin-sized songsters serenade deciduous forests of the eastern US and Canada. Each fall, they migrate to rainforests from southern Mexico to Panama where they call to each other from the underbrush.
[Wood Thrush call]
For Wood Thrushes, not just any woods will do. They depend on large blocks of intact forest throughout their range.
Unfortunately, Wood Thrushes are losing habitat as humans convert vibrant forests to pastures, mines, and urban developments. As the remaining forests become smaller and scattered, the Wood Thrush are left with less food and more threats from predators.
[Wood Thrush song]
We can help Wood Thrushes — and forest birds everywhere — by conserving and restoring woodlands throughout the Americas. That includes planting native trees in urban green spaces and buying bird-friendly coffee that’s cultivated without destroying the crucial habitats that support the Wood Thrush’s priceless song.
[Wood Thrush song]
For BirdNote, I’m Michael Stein.
Support comes from Wild Delight Bird Food, offering a variety of blends designed to mimic the natural resources wild birds crave, available at Chewy.com.
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Senior Producer: Mark Bramhill
Producer: Sam Johnson
Managing Producer: Jazzi Johnson
Managing Producer: Ariana Remmel
Content Director: Jonese Franklin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Wood Thrush [ML621759623] recorded by Guilherme Melo. Wood Thrush [ML168331] recorded by Wil Hershberger.
BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
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Narrator: Michael Stein
ID# SotB-WOTH-01b-2026-05-08 SotB-WOTH-01b
Reference:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wood_Thrush/overview
https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/woothr/cur/introduction
Bob Sundstrom
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Michael Stein
NarratorSights & Sounds
