Here are some interesting facts about this bird:
This is a large thrush just a bit smaller than the American Robin.
It has a beautiful haunting yodeling song that rings through the woodlands with a flutelike sound. In fact, their vocal song box allows them to sing more than one note at once making it possible for them to harmonize with their own song! This is perhaps the reason the song is so hauntingly lovely.
This bird is seldom seen outside the deep woods. I do not see them much, but I hear their song at times coming from the woodlands surrounding my home.
Sadly, their populations are declining possibly due to deforestation in their winter habitat in Central America.
Cowbirds often lay eggs in wood thrushes nests which also keeps their population down as the baby cowbirds will sometimes push the thrushlings out of the nest.
Wood thrushes have been seen to practice "anting" which means they pick up an ant and rub it on their feathers. It is guessed that the ants secrete an oil that is useful for the birds.
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