LATE MAY IS the best time of the year to get acquainted with some of America's best songsters — our thrushes, which are some of the more difficult migrants to catch passing through the Garden State.

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There is a quiet bird of winter that appears each year outside my door. It is solitary and discrete — no flocking sparrow or clamoring jay. This bird blends in, wrapped in russet, its cloudy breast ...

I’ve been reading old bird books again. There’s something nice about the old-fashioned approach, when human appreciation for birds was allowed to be front and center. Let me show you what I mean with ...