I heard the paired notes of a singing male brown thrasher on Saturday, March 29, confirming the return of this large songbird. The thrasher was singing from a dead blue spruce tree surrounded by a ...

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 ...