| For Veeries, Remsen's approach was to identify winter as the period when no known passage birds were collected from anywhere. |
| It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner. |
| My affair with birds began, innocently enough, with the veeries in Central Park. |
| They were late in nesting, for young veeries were out everywhere. |
