Curve-Billed Thrasher in Cholla
A Curve-Billed Thrasher perches atop a cholla cactus. The wild-eyed Curve-Billed Thrasher makes a loud whistling sound. If you whistle back at them, you can sometimes carry on a "conversation.
Curve-billed Thrasher Photos
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Curve-billed Thrasher 1 ...
Curve-billed Thrasher
Adult
Similar Species
Bendire's Thrasher has shorter, straighter bill with a pale area at the base, finer, more triangular spots on breast, and yellower eyes.
Curve-billed Thrasher ( Toxostoma curvirostre )
Curve-Billed Thrasher, Ramirez Ranch, Near Roma, Texas
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
Described by: Swainson (1827)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
A Curve-billed Thrasher, with its mate, may proclaim territory by singing from perches at the perimeter, which can encompass several acres. A pair may occupy the same territory throughout their lives.
Bendire's and Curve-billed Thrashers have decurved bills, browner upperparts, and less spotted underparts. Juvenile Northern Mockingbird is also mostly gray with spotted underparts but it has white wing patches.
The iris is yellow to orange-yellow, differing slightly from the orange iris of the Curve-billed Thrasher. It has no distinct wing bars, while the Sage Thrasher has white wing bars on new feathers.
It is often confused with the similar Curve-billed Thrasher. The individual shown in the three shots shown here was near Salton City, Imperial Co., California, in November, 1993. The shots were taken with a Canon T-90 and FD 400mm F/5.
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Curve-billed Thrasher at the Shipley Nature Center ...
Curve-billed Thrasher, Toxostoma curvirostre
California Thrasher, Toxostoma redivivum
Crissal Thrasher, Toxostoma crissale
Le Conte's Thrasher, Toxostoma lecontei
Vizcaino Thrasher, Toxostoma arenicola ...
 See also: Thrasher, Mockingbird, Hummingbird, Kingbird, Brown Thrasher
  
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