How to Use wood thrush in a Sentence

wood thrush

noun
  • The migrant wildlife is gone, the pewees, vireos and wood thrushes all far to the south by now.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The site has many species of fish and birds, such as scarlet tanagers and wood thrushes.
    Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Birders call one side of the park Thrush Ridge for the birds — wood thrush, hermit thrush, gray-cheeked thrush and more — that seem to like it there.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • From the woodlands at the course boundaries, a wood thrush sang its ethereal song.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
  • One species seen and heard here, the wood thrush, known for its lovely song, improved its status.
    Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • In such gardens, expect to see wood thrushes and eastern towhees.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The forest is a large and welcome habitat for forest birds like the veery, wood thrush, and a variety of owls and woodpeckers.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Examples include the lark bunting, Colorado’s state bird, and the wood thrush, a migratory bird that breeds in Eastern forests.
    New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • And the wood thrush needs a territory of 400 acres to breed successfully, while the feckless robin drops its eggs on every sidewalk in North America.
    John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Local breeding birds such as wood thrushes, great crested flycatchers, red-eyed vireos and summer tanagers will be here in a few days.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
  • There is no more melodious melody in all of birddom than the song of the wood thrush: clear, resounding, flute-like, and repeated at stately intervals — not the slop that issues from its Cockney cousin’s beak.
    John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Other birds that were spotted last week included four blue-gray gnatcatchers, three wood thrushes, a field sparrow, and five Eastern meadowlarks.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • The Turdidae have some real aristocrats in their tree, beginning with the bluebird — that blithe symbol of rural America — and ascending to the wood thrush.
    John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2021
  • This moderate trail is full of animal sightings including woodland birds such as ovenbirds, wood thrush, rufous-sided towhees and gray catbirds.
    Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Several noteworthy species of birds were observed: brown creeper, rusty blackbird, wood thrush and yellow-bellied sapsucker.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In Patterson Park alone, more than 200 bird species have been documented, including Baltimore orioles, chimney swifts and wood thrushes.
    Alison Knezevich, baltimoresun.com, 10 Feb. 2018

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