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The brown thrasher is a bird in the family which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds The male brown thrasher may have the largest song repertoire of any North American bird
Every year we get these birds nesting in our pine trees and I usually hear their beautiful singing before I spot them. It is estimated that the brown thrasher has more than 1,100 song types, making them one of the most varied singers in the bird world. Photographed through my window.
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I've had a pair of these showing up in my backyard on a daily basis eating dried fruits and nuts I scatter in my grass. They've been quite difficult to shoot as they are very jittery birds and take off as soon as they see me. I was finally able to capture this photo through my window. 😊
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This beautiful Jay was fighting with a Crissal Thrasher in a Juniper forest, it was quite odd to say the least. The Jay won.
An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood.
Wish I knew this ahead of time
Two of these beauties are hanging out in the yard daily. I have watched them catch butterflies in flight. They are very good at population control. Of course, butterfly population control is not what I had in mind when I started butterfly gardening. Between these two and the Great Crested Flycatcher that has been hanging around it's a wonder that there are any butterflies out there.
Thankfully, the butterflies are doing well. Yesterday there were three monarchs, they seem to be the favorite meal for the Flycatcher. I was not able to count the number of Zebra Longwings, they are plentiful. Two giant swallowtails a Tiger Swallowtail and several Orange Barred Sulfurs. Oh, and a Gulf Fritillary and I cannot forget the Polydamas (goldrims). There were at least four of those.
I just got my reminder to clean and fill the feeders... Time to go play.
Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.
Brown Thrashers have the largest repertoire of songs of all the North American birds and are able to vocalize 3000 distinct songs.
A Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on the dead wooden core of a cactus in the Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
12 December, 2017.
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A Brown Thrasher, possibly with some kind of condition or abnormality. It has bare skin patches on both sides of its bill, which doesn't seem to close completely. Glendale, Missouri
This Brown Thrasher spotted during a hike through the Royal Botanical Gardens Arboretum as it was singing away in the brush. Had seen it before in the same area but always too far for a picture - finally close enough this day!
(Toxostoma rufum)
This Brown Thrasher is unafraid of me where I sit right out in the yard under my umbrella and watch the birds all the time. He comes and goes within a few feet of me. Most of the birds are very tame but some are afraid of my camera but not this
one.
I get this green bokeh many times when the evening sun is shining through my fence. You can see the fence in the bokeh. It is one of my favorite times to take pictures.
Sage Junction, Idaho
The Sage Thrasher is a sagebrush dependent species during the breeding season and winters in rather dry, brushy and grassy areas in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Its rather rambling song is beautiful. Unfortunately this species has experienced approximately a 50% population decline as sagebrush habitat has been degraded or entirely converted to other usages. It's reported that it's been largely extirpated from Canada and its range is constricting in the U.S. It continues to enjoy a strong population in the Intermountain West where large tracts of sagebrush remain.
The birds around my area are all looking a bit bedraggled after an exhausting (but apparently very successful) breeding season. This one looked thin, but was calm and mellow, as this species almost always seems to be, as it lingered at the bird bath enjoying some refreshment.
North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains, California.
July 27, 2021
Another first sighting for me and very happy to find one on this dead tree as they rarely come out of the brush.
Exuberant singers with a loud, long series of doubled phrases with no definite beginning or end: “plant a seed, plant a seed, bury it, bury it, cover it up, cover it up, let it grow, let it grow, pull it up, pull it up, eat it, eat it.”
What a joy! Here is the link to his song: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/media-browser/...
Same tree as the Kingfisher