I seldom saw a brown thrasher. But here in North Florida, I see them every day - typically lots of them. They’re so common in this neck of the woods that they’re the state bird of Georgia.

The widespread thrasher of eastern North America, the brown thrasher is generally a secretive bird of dense thickets and hedgerows. Often seen feeding on the ground, probing for insects with its ...

Then I heard from Lynne Lindsay in Little Neck. She wrote about the brown thrasher that was making a racket for hours at a time from the top of a dead tree in her yard. “His calls are so loud ...