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 ...

A largish, pale brown thrasher with uniform brown upperparts ... Adults distinctive; note different habitat and calls compared with the Bendire’s thrasher. Juvenile curve-billed easily confused ...

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 ...