| 单词 | wood thrush |
| 例句 | The robins and wood thrushes and other small birds that navigated by the stars at night fluttered down into the trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I whistled him the “hi-chickadee” song of the black- capped Mr. Bracket; and the waterfall song of the wood thrush. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But, like many of North America’s migrating birds, the wood thrush is in trouble. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z This despite The Washington Post’s initial protests that the wood thrush spent only five months of the year in the region. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In fact, in 1967, the wood thrush was declared the District’s official bird by the board of commissioners. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Stanley sees that potential with the wood thrush. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z But if that were the case, wood thrush numbers would be rising. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z "You don't see the wood thrush. You hear it." D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z There’s something truly mysterious about the wood thrush. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In such gardens, expect to see wood thrushes and eastern towhees. Perspective | Bird populations have crashed. Here’s what you can do to help. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z And the wood thrush’s call, made to defend territory and attract mates, sounds as if it emanates from a big, complex instrument rather than this delicate creature. D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush, has been disappearing from these parts 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Among the biggest visual changes are the addition of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush. D.C. unveils new driver’s license design 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z 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. Perspective | Alexandria’s tiny Monticello Park gains a big honor 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Local artist Meg Biram created a mural of feathers behind the bar; designs throughout are inspired by the wood thrush, the official bird of D.C. These hotel rooftop bars offer excellent — and very different — views of D.C. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But she hopes the improvements to the grounds will prove attractive to one species in particular: the wood thrush, Washington’s official bird. Perspective | The Audubon Naturalist Society is flush with a new donation: Composting toilets 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The wood thrush is linked to all of D.C., as it is the state bird, and I linked the artwork generally to the site by showing the monuments and cherry blossoms which are nearby. Finding these artful animals around Capitol Hill is as easy as ABC At dusk, wood thrushes chimed their watery, ethereal songs, which I now associate with freedom and creative ferment. The Composer of Noise 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z If they listened closely, they might hear the fluting of the wood thrush and the voices of worm-eating and hooded warblers. Land trust’s `challenge’ aims to get Hoosiers back outdoors 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Examples include the lark bunting, Colorado’s state bird, and the wood thrush, a migratory bird that breeds in Eastern forests. These State Birds May Be Forced Out of Their States as the World Warms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “It needs a nice forest with good understory. When we get our first pair of nesting wood thrushes, that’s a species I’m going to be excited to see.” Perspective | The Audubon Naturalist Society is flush with a new donation: Composting toilets 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Those at risk include the wood thrush, a well-known songbird, and the Baltimore oriole, the mascot of Maryland’s baseball team. Two-thirds of bird species in North America could vanish in climate crisis 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z When was the last time you heard Thoreau’s wood thrush? Opinion | Cats are perfect little killing machines. Spay or neuter them. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Among the worst-hit bird groups are insect-eating birds such as swifts and swallows, grassland birds such as meadowlarks and Savannah sparrows, and the longest-distance migrants such as cerulean warblers and wood thrushes. Opinion | We’re losing birds at an alarming rate. We can do something about it. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z More than 50 years ago, Rachel Carson warned of a “silent spring”, the songs of robins and wood thrush silenced by toxic pesticides such as DDT. America’s dependence on pesticides, especially neonics, is a war on nature 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The migrant wildlife is gone, the pewees, vireos and wood thrushes all far to the south by now. ‘It’s so still’: A winter solstice filled with peace at the National Arboretum 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z For example, many of the District Department of Energy and the Environment’s species of greatest concern, such as the wood thrush and Eastern cottontail, are threatened by cats. Opinion | Cats are not the answer to D.C.’s rat problem 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The official bird of D.C., the wood thrush, scours leaf litter looking for caterpillars and worms. These Animals Live in the Most Powerful City in the World 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z He said the understory plants cleared for fairways are important habitat for wood thrushes, brown thrashers and other birds. Proposed disc golf course ruffles feathers of birders 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In his poem “Marina,” he writes, “What seas, what shores, what grey rocks and what islands, What water lapping the bow, And scent of pine, and wood thrush echoing through the fog. what images return.” TS Eliot Foundation buys poet’s Gloucester summer home 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The wood thrush, the District’s official bird, might depart for similar reasons. Bye bye, birdie: Study says warming may force orioles, eagles from D.C. region The scientists plan to place backpacks on 25 wood thrush in Minnesota. Smithsonian scientists track Minnesota songbirds 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The city also has an official bird, the wood thrush, and an official tree, the scarlet oak. Students pushing Potomac bluestone for official D.C. rock "It doesn't really look good for the wood thrush," Dr. Stutchbury said. Green Blog: Will Climate Change Trip Up Punctual Songbirds? 2012-07-26T19:04:26Z Tests on birds like this wood thrush in the Catskills found disturbing levels of methylmercury. Green Blog: Sounding an Alarm on Birds and Mercury 2012-01-24T12:16:39Z The new study found dangerously high levels of mercury in several Northeastern bird species, including rusty blackbirds, saltmarsh sparrows and wood thrushes. Study Finds Mercury in More Northeastern Bird Species 2012-01-23T21:14:08Z The veery's upper parts are cinnamon color; its dress is finely marked and its sides almost white; it inhabits the dense woods and does not frequent the habitation of man as does the wood thrush. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z Much more shy and reserved than the social, democratic robin is his cousin the wood thrush, whom, perhaps, you more frequently hear than see. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z She and her colleagues found that the best predictor of when wood thrushes show up in the Northeast in April is on what day they departed from Central America. Green Blog: Will Climate Change Trip Up Punctual Songbirds? 2012-07-26T19:04:26Z While that was good for the mice, it was bad news for low-nesting birds like the wood thrush, whose nests are susceptible to rodent predation. Boom and Bust in Acorns Will Affect Many Creatures, Including Humans 2011-12-07T07:40:12Z While that was good for the mice, it was bad news for ground-nesting birds like the wood thrush, whose nests are susceptible to rodent predation. Boom and Bust in Acorns Will Affect Many Creatures, Including Humans 2011-12-03T02:56:43Z The wood thrush is less shy than the veery or hermit thrush. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z A wood thrush startled by the click of the camera. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z At first you notice no speckles on its breast, but as it comes nearer, obscure arrow-heads are visible—not heavy, heart-shaped spots such as plentifully speckle the larger wood thrush or the smaller hermit. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z We are always glad to hear the robins, but never for the same reason that we listen to a wood thrush. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z I heard no sounds save the murmur of running water and the song of a wood thrush. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z As she worked, a wood thrush called far off, his last long-drawn note ringing like a sweet, wistful fairy horn. The Idyl of Twin Fires Once a wood thrush sang his daytime song all through, and murmured part of it a second time, then sank into silence. The Jonathan Papers The wood thrush is distributed over the eastern part of the United States wherever suitable conditions are found. Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 Poets and prose writers alike have lavished epithets on nightingale and mockingbird, wood thrush and veery, yet who, till he heard one, could imagine what its song was like? Upon The Tree-Tops Down long aisles of perfumed green the voice of the wood thrush rings mellow and serene. Old Plymouth Trails “No, a wood thrush,” said I. “He’s not so Mozartian.” The Idyl of Twin Fires The wood thrush frequently weaves a fragment of newspaper or a white rag into the foundation of its nest. Ways of Nature Following is a list of the insects identified in the stomachs of the wood thrush and the number of stomachs in which each was found: Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 A catbird on the fence went on with his bewitching song, and a wood thrush in the shrubbery dropped not a note of his heavenly melody. Upon The Tree-Tops Certainly the wood thrush's call touches that chord in the human breast. Old Plymouth Trails She has none of the wood thrush's dignity and grace. Under the Maples "Hermit" often takes his visitors to a wood thrushes' singing-school, where, "as the birds forget their lesson, they drop out one by one." Ways of Nature For the investigation of the food habits of the wood thrush 171 stomachs were available. Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 The mockingbird is a joyous, rollicking, marvelous songster; the wood thrush moves the very soul with his ecstatic notes; the clarin equals the latter in quality, with a much larger variety. Upon The Tree-Tops Again, the wood thrush was whistling with a sweet voice; the golden-crowned hammer plumed his feathers. Sielanka: An Idyll She skulks and slinks away like a culprit, while the wood thrush stands up before you or perches upon a limb, and turns his spotted waistcoat toward you in the most open and trusting manner. Under the Maples It is a very pretty sight to witness a pair of wood thrushes building their nest. Ways of Nature With the wood thrush they begin with 18.12 per cent in April and gradually decrease through the summer and disappear in October. Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 A wood thrush was singing not far off, and in the midst a Swainson thrush vouchsafed a few measures. Birds in the Bush If the wood thrush had been here, the chorus would have been complete,—a chorus not to be excelled, according to my untraveled belief, in any quarter of the world. The Foot-path Way In fact, few birds have such good manners as the wood thrush, and few have so much the manner of a Paul Pry and eavesdropper as the catbird. Under the Maples Indeed, what is there about the wood thrush that is not pleasing? Ways of Nature Next after the wood thrush and the robin, the loud yet sweetly modulated call of the Baltimore oriole is the most pleasing of all our bird notes. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine On this trip I settled once more a question which I had already settled several times,—the question, namely, whether the wood thrush or the hermit is the better singer. Birds in the Bush Throughout May and June, for example, he has heard and seen wood thrushes in a certain grove. The Foot-path Way The68 flight of the wood thrush across the lawn is such a picture of grace and harmony, it is music to the eye. Under the Maples But all the ways of the wood thrush are smooth and gentle, and suggest the melody of its song. Ways of Nature The bluebird haunts the hollow apple trees, and of the thrushes proper the veery or Wilson’s and the splendid wood thrush sing to their mates on the nests among the saplings. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Why could not the wood thrush have been punctual? Birds in the Bush Now let us look at the upper end of this wonderful pneumatic pipe, which so often throws Pan and all his coterie into a transport when the thrasher and the wood thrush flute their dithyrambs. Our Bird Comrades Little wonder that there are twenty robins to one bluebird, or wood thrush, or catbird. Under the Maples The wood thrush is the handsomest species of the thrush family. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs We must be on the watch these days for the beautiful wood thrush, the lesser spotted veery, the well named olive-back and the rarer gray-cheeked thrush. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Beside his divine chip-cherr the rhapsody of the wood thrush is a mere nothing, if she is to be the judge. Birds in the Bush A wood thrush's nest that I found contained two young thrushes and two buntings. Our Bird Comrades I must not forget the pair of wood thrushes that are building a nest in a maple fifty or more feet away. Under the Maples In the case of the wood thrush, its life and joy seem to mount higher and higher as the nest prospers. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs But I best had comb my honey And churn that sour cream, And listen to the wood thrush When I ketch time to dream. Blue Ridge Country My first wood thrush was seen for a moment only, and although he had given me a plain sight of his back, I concluded that my eyes must once more have played me false. Birds in the Bush Conspicuous members of the early chorus were the wood thrushes, a dozen or more of which were often singing at the same time. Our Bird Comrades A brood of wood thrushes which left their nest about the same time was still being fed by their parents about the place. Under the Maples There is no nest-builder that suffers more from crows and squirrels and other enemies than the wood thrush. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Even now a wood thrush closed his last descant in flute-like notes across the river. Days Off And Other Digressions How the case would have turned had the conditions been reversed, had there been a hundred of the wood thrushes for one of the hermits, of course I cannot tell. Birds in the Bush If the wood thrush's execution were less labored, he would certainly be a marvelous songster, and even as it is, he furnishes unending delight to those whose ears are trained to appreciate avian minstrelsy. Our Bird Comrades I welcomed the catbird, though she is not so attractive a neighbor as the wood thrush. Under the Maples For years I have not known the nest of a wood thrush to succeed. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs When you sit down on your porch after dark, fifebird and hermit thrush and wood thrush will sing to you; and even whip-poor-will will cheer you up a little. Bird Day; How to prepare for it A party of chimney swifts were shooting hither and thither over the trees, a single wood thrush was chanting not far away, and in another direction a tanager was rehearsing his chip-cherr with characteristic assiduity. Birds in the Bush For instance, a pet wood thrush of mine, secured at an early age and kept far away from all his kith of the wildwood, became a fine musician. Our Bird Comrades So I have seen a wood thrush time after time carrying the same piece of paper to a branch from which the breeze dislodged it, without any evidence of impatience. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers "It is not so wildly melodious, but it is wiser and more mature than that of the wood thrush." The Last Harvest The sweet wonderful note of a wood thrush, somewhere far out of sight, assured me, what everything conspired to assure me, that I was certainly in fairyland, not on the common earth. Daisy The song of the wood thrush is perhaps the most easily set apart from the rest, because of its greater compass of voice and bravery of execution. Birds in the Bush It was the sweet, dreamy, somewhat labored song of the wood thrush in his native wilds. Our Bird Comrades The other day I sat for an hour watching a pair of wood thrushes engaged in building their nest near "Slabsides." The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers The wood thrush sounds a few organ tones, resonant and thrilling. Some Summer Days in Iowa The new Cyclop�dia, fresh from the study of Audubon, says the hermit's song consists of a single plaintive note, and that the veery's resembles that of the wood thrush! In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Indeed, the same may be said of bird-songs generally,—those of the song sparrow, the bay-winged bunting, and the wood thrush being familiar examples. Birds in the Bush His voice is full, strong, and musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the wood thrush to the savage scream of the bald eagle. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 All the behavior of the wood thrush affects one like music; it is melody to the eye as the song is to the ear; it is visible harmony. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Because the first nest of the wood thrush was robbed by the blue-jays, a second nest was built. Some Summer Days in Iowa Wood Song I heard a wood thrush in the dusk Twirl three notes and make a star— My heart that walked with bitterness Came back from very far. Love Songs A wood thrush called brusquely, but offered no further salute to the god of day at his departure. Birds in the Bush I had heard the wood thrush long before. Walden The wood thrush is urban and suggests sylvan halls and courtly companions. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers This family was safely reared, and the wood thrush sang until the third week in July, when one clear sunset night, the sky all aglow with banners of golden red, he sang his farewell solo. Some Summer Days in Iowa They went on their knees at their first experience with the clear, bell-toned notes of the wood thrush. Michael O'Halloran Musically expressed, his song is very much like that of the wood thrush—three cadenced liquid notes, a quivering pause, then three more notes of another phrase, and so on. The Forest You will find in his poems the wood pewee, the bluebird, the oriole, the robin, the grouse, the kingfisher, the chipmunk, the mink, the bobolink, the wood thrush, all in their proper places. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The wood thrush whose nest-building I have just described, laid only one egg, and an abnormal-looking egg at that—very long and both ends of the same size. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers For the last time, perhaps, I listened to the mocking-bird and the cardinal, as by and by, when the grand holiday is over, I shall listen to my last wood thrush and my last bluebird. A Florida Sketch-Book The reedy song of the wood thrush among the thickets of the wild cherry.... Great Possessions If you symbolize the hermit thrush by the flute, you must call the wood thrush a chime of little tinkling bells. The Forest If the bluebird chants a hymn, what does the wood thrush do? The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Another pair of wood thrushes built a nest on the low branch of a maple by the roadside, where I had it under daily observation. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers He may have been unable to distinguish between the song of the wood thrush and the hermit thrush. History of American Literature There were white birches and hemlocks on the hill, and somewhere in the thicket I heard a wood thrush singing. Great Possessions As it was a brown bird, I should have taken it for a wood thrush, had not the nest been described as so thin and loose that from beneath the eggs could be distinctly seen. Locusts and Wild Honey In the woods the wood thrush will chant a hymn of praise. Friends and Helpers For instance, he seems always to have confounded the song of the hermit thrush with that of the wood thrush. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers But the most noticeable instance of departure from the standard song of a species I ever knew of was in the case of a wood thrush. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The new Cyclopaedia, fresh from the study of Audubon, says the hermit's song consists of a single plaintive note, and that the veery's resembles that of the wood thrush! Wake-Robin He is a small sneak-thief, and will rob the nest of every robin, wood thrush, and oriole he can come at. Locusts and Wild Honey Because the wood thrush and cardinal sang while you ate your supper of well-cooked trout is no sign you will be so highly favored the next time you pitch your tent. See America First In the Maine woods and on Monadnock it is always the wood thrush which he hears, and never the hermit. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Brass amid gold, or pebbles amid pearls, are not more out of place than was this discordant scream or cry in the melodious strain of the wood thrush. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The birds of California, it is said, were mostly silent till after its settlement, and I doubt if the Indians heard the wood thrush as we hear him. Wake-Robin Our most beautiful singers are the wood thrushes; they sing not only in the early morning but throughout the long hot June afternoons. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Far up in the mountain above a wood thrush poured forth his clear notes. See America First The last ringing note of the wood thrush had died away and in a little while it was so dark I could distinguish nothing but the looming mass of tree tranks. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country The freckles, thick on her face and arms, made her look more like a poor little brown speckled wood thrush wearing a bonnet and being dragged along by one wing. Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! The wood thrush has none of theses underbred traits. Wake-Robin Its song has a general resemblance to that of our robin, but many of the notes are far more musical, more like those of our wood thrush. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography The wood thrush's song today is divine, yet, the simpler ditty of the wren has a sweetness not found in the larger minstrel's song. See America First At first you notice no speckles on its breast, but as it comes nearer, obscure arrow-heads are visible — not heavy, heart-shaped spots such as plentifully speckle the larger wood thrush or the smaller hermit. Bird Neighbors There are some intervals which border the strain of the wood thrush, to which I would migrate—wild lands where no settler has squatted; to which, methinks, I am already acclimated. Walking But the crowning glory of all these robins, flycatchers, and warblers is the wood thrush. Wake-Robin The song of the wood thrush is more golden and leisurely. Wake-Robin Far in the distance a wood thrush was sounding his vesper bell softly—the "Angelus" of the wildwood. See America First Yet those who have heard only the wood thrush may well place him first on the list. Wake-Robin The wood thrush and the hermit stand at the head as songsters, no two persons, perhaps, agreeing as to which is the superior. Wake-Robin If we take the quality of melody as the test, the wood thrush, hermit thrush, and the veery thrush stand at the head of our list of songsters. Wake-Robin In size this bird approaches the wood thrush, being larger than either the hermit or the veery; unlike all other species, no part of its plumage has a tawny or yellowish tinge. Wake-Robin A wood thrush is ringing her vesper bell softly. See America First At the first faint signs of day a wood thrush sang, a few rods below us. Wake-Robin The wood thrush is the handsomest species of this family. Wake-Robin The cast of its song is very much like that of the wood thrush, and a good observer might easily confound the two. Wake-Robin After the cricket has commenced to drone his monotonous refrain beneath your window, you will not, till another season, hear the wood thrush in all his matchless eloquence. Wake-Robin On the 1st of May I go to the Rock Creek or Piny Branch region to hear the wood thrush. Wake-Robin |
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