Thrasher

Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds. Like these, they are in the Mimidae family. There are 15 species in one large and 4 monotypic genera.

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Sage thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus
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Length: 7 inches
Slender bill
Pale gray head and upperparts
Yellow eye
White underparts with extensive black spotting
Long gray tail with paler tip
Faint wing bars
Sexes similar ...

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.

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Sage Thrasher ( Oreoscoptes montanus )
Sage Thrasher, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Near San Antonio, New Mexic
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Brown Thrasher
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The Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) is a nesting bird of open sagebrush plains of the montane western United States. It winters in the southwestern U.S. and into Mexico. The shot here was taken at Fort Hancock, Hudspeth Co.

Thrasher
Thrashers are medium-sized songbirds found in North and Central America, are classified in the mimic thrush family, Mimidae ...

The thrasher eats beetles, spiders, and other bugs year-round, and feasts on fruits when available. This ground-feeding bird will run for cover with its long tail raised.

Sage Thrasher Behaviour
No observations regarding Sage Thrasher behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Sage Thrashers ...

Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus. Accidental.
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.

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.

Dove and Thrasher Standoff
This White-Winged Dove and Curve-Billed Thrasher stare each other out to determine which will enjoy the fruits of this saguaro cactus.

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.

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 ...

Mockingbirds & Thrashers
The Mockingbird is the state bird. It can imitate the songs of other birds as well as other sounds. Males sometimes sing during the night.

You'll generally find the Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) scratching through brush looking for seeds and insects. This 10-inch slender bird is rufous colored with a heavily streaked white breast, a grey face, yellow eyes and white wing bars.

Thrasher, Sage Oreoscoptes montanus Found: North America
Photographed by: 1 - 4) Michael J Thompson at Guadalupe Mountains National Park
5) Alan D Wilson at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Near San Antonio, New Mexico ...

7. Sage Thrasher
8. Yellow-breasted Chat
9. Clay-colored Sparrow, fall visitor to Bay Area ...

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
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.

The California Thrasher, A California Endemic
Desert Finch in Arkansas (!?!?!)
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Life histories of North American nuthatches, wrens, thrashers, and their allies. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 475 p. [23215] 14. Biswell, Harold H. 1967. The use of fire in wildland management in California. In: Ciriacy-Wantrup, S. V.

The Brown Thrush, or Thrasher, by which names this bird is generally known, may be said to be a constant resident in the United States, as immense numbers are found all the year round in Louisiana, the Floridas, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

These Birds are the Cape Pygmy Owl (see it on its multimedia owl page), Xantus's Hummingbird, Gray Thrasher, Beldings Yellowthroat, Baird's Junco, and Cape Robin.

Of the various other genera allied to Mimus, the best known are the thrashers (genus Harporhynchus) of which six or eight species are found in North America, which are thrush-like and shy in their habits and do not mimic; ...

Black catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris)
Cozumel thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum)
White-breasted thrasher (Ramphocinclus brachyurus)
Orange-billed babbler (Turdoides rufescens)
Black-cheeked ant-tanager (Habia atrimaxillaris) ...

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 ...

Family Mimidae (mockingbirds and thrashers)
Family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
Family Polioptilidae (gnatcatchers) ...

The cactus wren and California thrasher often build their nests in the buckhorn cholla. The gila woodpeckers and gilded flickers chop burros in the long arms of the Saguaro Cactus.

What are the main threats to cacti?

Mockingbirds, Thrashers and Allies (Family Mimidae)
Starlings (Family Sturnidae)
Accentors (Family Prunellidae)
Wagtails and Pipits (Family Motacillidae)
Waxwings (Family Bombycillidae)
Silky-flycatchers (Family Ptilogonatidae) ...

Known predators include ringneck snakes, common kingsnakes, deer mice, long-tailed weasels, domestic cats, California thrashers, American robins, and loggerhead shrikes.

While looking for the macaws we strolled the cobblestone streets of the village seeing birds both new and familiar. Summer Tanager, Hermit Warbler, Couch's Kingbird, White-winged Dove, Curved-billed Thrasher and many northern warblers.

Often hollow depression in ground lined with fine grass; nest in shrub or rock crevice bulky, of grass, forbs, foundation of twigs, lined with fine materials. Often reuse their own nests and those of other species (esp mockingbird and thrashers).

Since Florida is also an important wintering habitat for migrating birds, the bobcat's winter diet reflects this abundance and includes ground-dwelling birds such as towhees, robins, catbirds and thrashers.

See also: Mockingbird, Robin, Warbler, Kingbird, Sparrow