It was one of those stunning September mornings. The air was crisp, the sky was full of high clouds, and a light dew had fallen during the night. My walk through the meadow required a little care to ...

While ambling aimlessly along wooded trails at Kleb Woods County Park near Tomball, I glimpsed a brown thrasher rustling softly in the brushy understory. Had it not been for the bird's gleaming orange ...

The brown thrasher is a big, bright, beautiful bird with captivating yellow eyes. This particular bird landed on a dead tree branch about 20 feet in front of me. / PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up for ...

Get to know the types of thrasher birds that birders should know. Learn where to spot these birds and how to identify them.

If you should ever peer into a thicket and here a thrashing sound and see dead leaves flying in all directions, don’t be concerned. Most likely it is simply a brown thrasher on the feed. This large ...

Any consideration of the emblematic bird of summer in the Red River Valley surely must include the brown thrasher. This is the personal choice of Suezette, my partner, and that alone weighs heavily in ...

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) lives out its days in relative seclusion. Like the gray catbird, which has a similar fondness for thickets and shrubby areas, brown thrashers haunt areas of dense ...

The distinctive reddish-brown color and long tail of the brown thrasher make it recognizable, but its vocal array may be its most impressive feature. More than 1,000 song variations may be used by a ...