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Crissal Thrasher

Toxostoma crissaleOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
Crissal Thrasher Breeding Male Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: Curved (up or down)
  • Eye Color: Brown to brownish straw.
  • Head Pattern: Plain, Malar or malar stripe
  • Crown Color: Gray-brown
  • Forehead Color: Gray-brown
  • Nape Color: Gray-brown
  • Throat Color: White
  • Cere color: No Data
Crissal Thrasher Breeding Male Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 27-32 cm (10.5-12.5 in)
  • Weight: 62 g (2.2 oz)
  • Size: Size 3. Medium (9 - 16 in)
  • Color: Brown, Gray, Olive
  • Underparts: Buff-gray
  • Upperparts: Gray-brown
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
Crissal Thrasher Breeding Male Flight

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Longer flights are swift on rapidly beating wings; shorter flights alternate several quick shallow wing strokes and short glides.
  • Wingspan Range: 33 cm (13.14 in)
  • Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Rounded Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Gray-brown
  • Under Tail: Red-brown
  • Leg Color: Black
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Family Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)_blue
Species Toxostoma crissale
Length10.5 - 12.5 Inches
Wingspan13.5 Inches

Crissal Thrasher

Crissal Thrasher: Large thrasher with gray-brown upperparts and unstreaked, gray underparts. The throat is white with dark moustache stripe, eyes are yellow, and black bill is long and strongly decurved. Tail is very long with chestnut-brown undertail coverts. Legs and feet are black.

● Song: "chideery", "cheeoo-ree-eep", or a "toit-toit-toit"

● Foraging & Feeding: Crissal Thrasher: Eats insects, spiders, seeds, and berries; forages on the ground, tossing leaves and vegetation with its bill.

● Breeding & nesting: Crissal Thrasher: One to four blue green eggs are laid in a nest made of twigs, lined with finer vegetation, and built in the middle of a dense shrub. Eggs are incubated for 14 days by both parents.

● Similar species: Crissal Thrasher: Le Conte's Thrasher is paler, has dark eyes, and only a wash of rust-brown undertail. Curve-billed Thrasher is paler, has faint spots on breast, orange eyes, and only a wash of rust-brown undertail. California Thrasher has dull buff belly and undertail, dark eyes, and is browner overall.

Flight Pattern

Longer flights are swift on rapidly beating wings; shorter flights alternate several quick shallow wing strokes and short glides.
Crissal Thrasher Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Crissal Thrasher: Resident from southern Nevada and southeastern California to western Texas and central Mexico. Preferred habitats include in dense, low scrubby vegetation, such as desert and foothill scrub and riparian brush.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationFairly common
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight2.2 Ounces