A brown thrasher searches for food in a residential backyard. Notice the strong bill that it uses to thrash about in leaf ...

Polytypic. Length 11". Sexes similar. A largish, pale brown thrasher with uniform brown upperparts and round, somewhat blurry spots on the underparts. Wings have noticeable whitish wing bars ...

The brown thrasher stands out because it usually repeats each phrase twice. Other mimics will repeat things, but consistently doing them twice is a brown thrasher specialty. Entice thrashers into ...

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 ...