Description: The brown thrasher is a large bird, 9 to 12 inches long with a reddish brown upper body and a white belly streaked with brown. Although it's fairly common, it tends to be ...

The brown thrasher’s main habitat is thick undergrowth and it’s right at home in dense thickets, hedgerows, forest edges, briar patches and residential bushes and shrubs.

Many Columbians will get a glimpse of a brown thrasher this summer and will assume it is a female cardinal as it darts into shrubs and disappears into the foliage. The silhouettes are somewhat ...

The brown thrasher doesn’t look like its mockingbird or catbird cousins. It is brown on top and heavily marked on a white breast. It is longer and heavier. Also, its long, downward curving bill ...

The brown thrasher, along with the northern mockingbird and gray catbird, is a member of the family Mimidae. All can imitate the songs of other birds.

Your back porch, your patio or your bird feeder. You learn with a modicum of research that the brown thrasher “is bright reddish-brown above with thin, dark streaks on its buffy underparts.

The brown thrasher, a big, foxy red songbird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types, became Georgia’s state bird in 1935 by a proclamation of the governor.

Brown thresher is NC’s one-bird orchestra “Ecstasy on the wing” is an apt description of our brown thrasher, songbird of the Carolinas. It’s an extraordinary bird with many aliases ...

• The brown thrasher is related to curve-billed thrasher in West Texas, long-billed thrasher in South Texas and crissal thrasher in Big Bend — all of which have similar behaviors.

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) lives out its days in relative seclusion. Like the gray catbird, which has a similar fondness for thickets and shrubby areas, brown thrashers haunt areas of dense ...

Brown thrashers are also known for their down-home romantic courtship ritual. When a potential mate approaches, the male thrasher turns down the volume on his songs - sort of like popping a soft ...