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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
The song of the Hermit Thrush, melodious and flute-like, has an echoing quality reminiscent of medieval music. To wander through a mixedwood forest at sunset in an area such as Prince Albert National Park and hear a Hermit Thrush sing is a hauntingly eerie experience. Although the species has a boreal forest and western mountain breeding range similar to the Swainson's Thrush, it winters much farther north than its cousin-in the southern US and northern Central America as opposed to tropical America.
In the boreal forest across Canada, this thrush prefers internal forest edges around small wetlands or meadows, but it can also be found near clearcuts and roads and clearings created by seismic or drilling activity. In the parklands it also breeds in large blocks of aspen woods (Johns 1993b).
The Hermit Thrush is an uncommon summer resident in aspen parkland, southern boreal, and mixedwood forest, and common throughout the northern boreal forest. It is locally common in dense aspen woods north of the Aspen Parkland. An isolated population occurs in the Cypress Hills (Smith 1996). It is a common to uncommon migrant through the southern portion of the province.
Original text by Brian W. Johns. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Hermit Thrush in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Hermit Thrush in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=HETH&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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