Toxostoma crissale ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: MIMIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
© Herbert Clarke
A drably colored inhabitant of desert washes and riparian thickets of the American Southwest and central Mexico, the Crissal Thrasher can be recognized by its long, down-curved bill, its long tail, and its reddish undertail. Its mellow, musical song makes it one of the finest desert songsters.
Song is a long series of rich, warbled, variable phrases. Call note a "pitchoree."