The Pandemic Spring and the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum’s Wood Thrush Story

TAP into Millburn/Short Hills published an article about our Wood Thrush success!

SHORT HILLS, NJ — Male Wood Thrushes were heard singing in the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum (CHA) forest in late May and into June.  This was unusual because in the past six years the male thrushes at the Arboretum had always stopped singing by mid-May.  Typically, the first Wood Thrushes, along with their thrush cousins, Swainson’s Thrush and Veery, would arrive from their spring migration during the first week of May, announcing their arrivals with their songs.  But in all previous years the Arboretum’s woods were thrush free by mid-May. Continue Reading HERE