perch-songster

Updated: June 25, 2025

Probably the perch-songster among our ordinary birds that is most regularly seized with the fit of ecstasy that results in this lyric burst in the air, as I described in my first book, "Wake Robin," over thirty years ago, is the oven-bird, or wood-accentor the golden-crowned thrush of the old ornithologists.

John Burroughs - Ways of Nature