Brown Thrasher
Toxostoma rufum
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 32,782
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The brown thrasher, sometimes erroneously called the brown thrush or fox-coloured thrush, is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds. The brown thrasher is abundant throughout the eastern and central United States and southern and central Canada, and it is the only thrasher to live primarily east of the Rockies and central Texas. It is the state bird of Georgia.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Brown thrasher”.