Large songbirds with long proportions—long, sturdy legs, a long tail, and a long, slightly curved bill. Reddish brown above with thin black-and-white wing bars and bold dark streaking below.
Large songbird with a long, slightly curved bill. Reddish brown above with a yellow eye.
Slender and long-tailed with bold streaking down the breast.
Found in scrubby fields, dense regenerating woods, thickets, hedgerows, and forest edges.
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Brown Thrashers are fairly large, slender songbirds with long proportions—the legs are long and sturdy, and the bill is long and slightly downcurved. The tail is long, too, and often cocked upward in the manner of wrens.
Slightly smaller than a Blue Jay; slightly larger than a Northern Mockingbird.
robin-sizedBrown Thrashers from the western Great Plains are slightly larger and paler than those breeding farther east.
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