Laura Erickson's For the Birds

This bird who spends much of its life on the forest floor has a song that reaches the heavens. Wood Thrushes are declining due to a variety of factors, from all the problems associated with forest fragmentation to acid rain, which dissolves calcium from the soil, making it less available for invertebrates, and ultimately leading to eggshell thinning in the Wood Thrushes that depend on those invertebrates for their own calcium supply. It took 40 years for me to add this one to my yard list, but that’s where I got the only recording I had for a long time.