Long-bodied slim bird about the size of a robin with a long, curved bill. Grayish brown overall with a whitish throat and spotted belly.
Long-tailed with a long, curved bill. Grayish brown overall with grayish flanks and pale peach undertail coverts. Note yellow eye.
Aptly named bird of the desert scrub regions. Drinks water from bird baths, dripping faucets, and areas where water collects.
Long and slender with a curved bill. The underparts are spotted and the undertail coverts are a pale peachy color.
Slender with a long curved bill and long tail. Grayish brown overall with a whitish throat and spotted underparts. Note yellow eye and pale peachy undertail coverts.
Forages on the ground using its bill and strong legs to toss vegetation out of the way in search of insects.
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A lanky songbird with a long, curved bill, long tail, and thick legs, recalling a mockingbird but bulkier and with a different bill.
Slightly larger than an American Robin, smaller than a Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay.
robin-sizedCurve-billed Thrashers from the Sonoran Desert (known as the palmeri group) have grayer chests with very indistinct spots and dull wingbars, whereas the curvirostre group of the Chihuahuan Desert has more distinct spots on a paler breast, with whitish wingbars and more white in the outer tail feathers.
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