The liquid song of the wood thrush floats through many Midwest woodlands and forested city parks in spring. Wood thrushes catch insects and eat fruit from trees and shrubs. In the summer, you'll find the wood thrush in moist forests of the eastern U.S. and southern Canada. Winters are spent from Texas and Mexico to Colombia. The bobolink is the only North American bird that has light feathers above and dark feathers below, coloration that helps bobolinks hide from predators in the blowing grasslands.
Male bobolinks court a female by strutting, with their pointed tail feathers dragging the ground.
The bobolink's summer range is grasslands of northern U.S. and southern Canada. Each spring and fall, bobolinks travel more than 5,000 miles between winter and summer ranges. The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Program Partners in Flight is an international effort to focus resources on solving the problems that face neotropical migrant birds. Partnerships have formed among countries, government agencies, conservation organizations, educational institutions, private industries and concerned individuals, all centering on the study and conservation of neotropical migrants and their habitats. These partnerships coordinated efforts to track bird numbers, assess habitat availability, avoid overlap in ongoing scientific studies, help manage against the decline of certain species and inform each other and the public about their efforts and needs.