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Brown thrasher Toxostoma rufum
Identification Tips:
Length: 10 inches
Slender bill with base of lower mandible yellow
Rufous crown, nape and upperparts
Gray face
Yellow eye
White underparts with heavy black streaking
White wing bars ...
Brown Thrasher
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Brown Thrasher Behaviour
No observations regarding Brown Thrasher behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Brown Thrashers ...
Brown Thrasher
(Toxostoma rufum)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed
2007 to 2011: Confirmed ...
Brown Thrasher
Toxostoma rufum (Linnaeus)
Status Uncommon vagrant, rare in winter. It was first recorded in 1943, when Harold F. Tufts reported one in full song in his garden at Port Mouton, Queens County.
Brown Thrasher could be confused with Wood Thrush. Thrushes have spots not streaks on the breast and brown eyes (yellow for Brown Thrasher). The Brown Thrasher's long decurved bill also distinguishes it from any of the thrushes.
The voice of the Brown Thrasher is a musical set of notes that are repeated twice.
Its range is from the southern parts of Canada including Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario and New England south to the Gulf Coast and Florida.
photo courtesy Dan Sudia ...
Brown Thrasher, Toxostoma rufum
Long-billed Thrasher, Toxostoma longirostre
Cozumel Thrasher, Toxostoma guttatum - possibly extinct (2006?)
Gray Thrasher, Toxostoma cinereum
Bendire's Thrasher, Toxostoma bendirei ...
Picture Brown Thrasher
Mockingbirds and thrashers prefer brushy habitats, wood margins
or residential areas.
Mockingbirds & Thrashers belong to the order Passeriformes.
Brown Thrasher
Toxostoma rufum (scientific)
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor (scientific)
Tree swallows can eat insects while in mid-flight. During the winter months when there are few insects, tree swallows will eat berries.
Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum. Breeder. Common in all seasons and regions. Found in short ground cover vegetation near dense thickets, hedgerows, and shrubs. Low Conservation Concern.
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Brown Thrasher
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Hermit Thrush
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The Brown Thrasher occurs throughout most of the eastern half of the United States, including the North during the breeding season and the South all year.
Other nest molesters include common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), and northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis).
This species is similar in appearance to the Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) which is more widely distributed in the eastern United States and perhaps more familiar to most observers.
A Gray Catbird's song is easily distinguished from that of the Northern Mockingbird or Brown Thrasher because the mockingbird repeats phrases 3-4 times, and the brown thrasher usually repeats each phrase twice, ...
Some of the more unusual items observed on their menu include garter snakes, ducklings and even a brown thrasher! Bullfrogs are themselves eaten by herons, snakes and humans.
Georgia - Brown thrasher
Hawaii - Nene
Idaho - Mountain Bluebird (Sialia arctica)
Illinois - Northern Cardinal
Iowa - Eastern Goldfinch
Indiana - Cardinal
Kansas - Western Meadowlark
Kentucky - Cardinal
Louisiana - Brown pelican ...
Mockingbirds and Catbirds forage the ground and in foliage and brush piles. Brown Thrashers forage in leaf litter. All feed on insects and fruit and may visit feeders when food is in short supply. None use nest boxes.
FERRUGINOUS MOCKING-BIRD.
[Brown Thrasher.]
(State Bird of Georgia)
ORPHEUS RUFUS, Linn.
[Toxostoma rufum.] ...
There is one bird allowed: a brown thrasher who resembles a mockingbird and is a bit larger than the mocker. I have a two arm shepherd's hook hanger for my suet and seeds. The suet is on one and the seeds on the other.
Unlike its close relatives, the Northern Mockingbird and the Brown Thrasher, this songbird does not appear to adapt well to urban, suburban, and agricultural environments.
Of the 17 species of thrashers, the brown thrasher, Toxostoma rufum, of the E United States is typical. It is a rich chestnut above, with whitish underparts streaked with brown; it is sometimes erroneously called the brown thrush.
 See also: Thrasher, Mockingbird, Kingbird, Robin, Northern Mockingbird
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