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Brown Thrasher

Toxostoma rufumOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
Brown Thrasher Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: Curved (up or down)
  • Eye Color: Orange to orange-yellow.
  • Head Pattern: Plain, Streaked, Malar or malar stripe
  • Crown Color: Red-brown
  • Forehead Color: Red-brown
  • Nape Color: Red-brown
  • Throat Color: Buff with heavy black streaking.
  • Cere color: No Data
Brown Thrasher Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 29 cm (11.5 in)
  • Weight: 68 g (2.4 oz)
  • Size: Size 3. Medium (9 - 16 in)
  • Color: Tan, White, Brown, Black
  • Underparts: Buff with heavy black streaking.
  • Upperparts: Red-brown
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Striped or streaked
  • Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked
Brown Thrasher Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Rather fast flight n shallow wing beats. Short flights are made with several rapid wing beats alternated with brief periods with wings pulled to sides;repeated.
  • Wingspan Range: 32-36 cm (12.5-14 in)
  • Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Squared Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Red-brown
  • Under Tail: Red-brown
  • Leg Color: Brown
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Family Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)_blue
Species Toxostoma rufum
Length11.5 Inches
Wingspan13.25 Inches

Brown Thrasher

Brown Thrasher: Medium thrasher, rufous upperparts, black-streaked, pale brown underparts. Eyes are yellow. Brown-black bill curves down, lower mandible has pale base. Wings have two white and black bars. Tail is long and red-brown. Legs and feet are brown. Fast flight on shallow, rapid wing beats.

● Song: "smack", "churr"

● Foraging & Feeding: Brown Thrasher: Feeds on insects, small amphibians, fruits, and some grain. Runs quickly on the ground when foraging, turning leaves over with bill to find food.

● Breeding & nesting: Brown Thrasher: Two to six white to pale blue eggs, with light brown specks, are laid in a large nest built from sticks, grass, leaves, and rootlets, lined with grass, and built near the ground in a dense, often thorny bush. Incubation ranges from 11 to 14 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Brown Thrasher: Long-billed Thrasher has more gray-brown upperparts, darker streaks on dull white underparts, longer, more decurved bill, orange-red eyes, and long gray-brown tail.

Flight Pattern

Rather fast flight n shallow wing beats. Short flights are made with several rapid wing beats alternated with brief periods with wings pulled to sides;repeated.
Brown Thrasher Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Brown Thrasher: Breeds from southeastern Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and northern New England south to the Gulf coast and Florida. Spends winters in southern part of breeding range.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
Population
MigrationMigratory
Weight2.4 Ounces