Species profile
Brown Thrasher
Toxostoma rufum
Quick answer
Rufous above with heavy streaking; sings phrases in pairs.
- Scientific name
- Toxostoma rufum
- Family
- Mimidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Toxostoma
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Habitat
Thickets, woodland edge
Recording Brown Thrasher in your journal
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Related species in Mimidae
- Bahama Mockingbird (Mimus gundlachii)
- Bendire's Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei)
- Black Catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris)
- Blue Mockingbird (Melanotis caerulescens)
- Blue-and-white Mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus)
- Brown Trembler (Cinclocerthia ruficauda)
- Brown-backed Mockingbird (Mimus dorsalis)
- California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum)