Typically bold, buffy eye ring and supraloral patch of most Swainson’s thrushes distinctive. Adult: in “olive-backed” group, upperparts olive-brown with slightly more reddish uppertail coverts.

After slinking off for a few minutes, he proudly returned, clutching a ball of feathers: a one-ounce, beautifully shade-dappled Swainson’s thrush that had just flown several thousand miles from ...

American Redstarts, Swainson’s Thrush and Bay-breasted Warbler’s are among the birds expected to be traveling through the ...