Large, long-tailed songbird with a long curved bill. Brownish above and brownish to peachy below depending on lighting conditions. Often runs along the ground with a raised tail.
Forages primarily on the ground by tossing its long bill in arcs to uncover insects buried in leaf and ground litter. Note long, downward curved bill, white throat, and dark eye.
Song is a long series of warbled, variable phrases, some musical and others harsh; each element may be repeated once or twice.
Large and long-tailed songbird with a long curved bill. Brown above with a white throat and pale peachy washed underparts.
Sings almost year-round from the tops of shrubs.
Found in lowland and coastal chaparral, riparian woodland thickets, and parks and gardens with dense shrubs.
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A large, lanky songbird with a very long tail and long legs. The bill is very long and strongly curved. It has wide wings.
Larger than a Northern Mockingbird, smaller than a Yellow-billed Magpie.
robin-sizedOrnithologists recognize two subspecies: redivivum, found from Baja California north to southern Santa Cruz and Placer Counties, and sonomae, found from northern Santa Cruz and El Dorado Counties northward. These differ in the richness of plumage: the southerly redivivum is paler, more a grayish brown above, with buffy undertail coverts and a grayish throat, whereas the northern sonomae is a rich brown above, with almost chestnut undertail coverts and a buffy throat.
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