Hermit Thrush

The Hermit Thrush can often be identified in the field by its regular habit of quickly raising and slowly lowering its reddish tail. It also flicks its wings when perched, although not as continuously as a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Other thrushes may raise their tails or flick their wings, but not with regularity.

Video clips by Larry Arbanas and Timothy Barksdale/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (464880 and 442049)