"This afternoon brown thrashers are very numerous and musical. It is a bird that appears to make a business of singing for its own amusement. There is great variety in its strains." —Henry David ...

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"This afternoon brown thrashers are very numerous and musical. It is a bird that appears to make a business of singing for its own amusement. There is great variety in its strains." -- Henry David ...

Have you ever cleaned up one of your flower beds only to walk back out there to see it back in the very mess you just spent half the day cleaning up? I can’t begin to tell you the messes I have seen ...

Claim to fame: Among birders, brown thrashers are known to have one of the largest song repertoires of any North American bird. In Missouri, these robin-sized birds can be found in thickets, brushy ...

Songbird distribution can vary dramatically, sometimes in direct conflict with what’s written in scientifically researched field guides. All my field guides show brown thrashers as occurring primarily ...

Wherever they live, thrasher birds add rich and varied songs to their surroundings. They can be fascinating to watch, even if they’re hard to see. So it’s worth making the effort to get to know these ...

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At this time of year, brown thrashers venture onto our lawns. The thrashers are conspicuous at other times, as well, but it is now, with the young out of the nests, that thrashers really relax and ...

While ambling aimlessly along wooded trails at Kleb Woods County Park near Tomball, I glimpsed a brown thrasher rustling softly in the brushy understory. Had it not been for the bird's gleaming orange ...

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 ...