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 ...

UNDER its nest record card scheme, members of the British Trust for Ornithology are asked to complete a card for every nest of every species that they find, giving details of locality, situation, ...

The song of the wood thrush is described as a flutelike ee-o-lay. The hermit thrush has a voice that is clear and ethereal, still flutelike, with three or four phrases at different pitches. The song ...

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 ...