Thrasher Bird

Thrasher bird

Their common name describes the behaviour of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to "thrash" through dirt or dead leaves. All of these birds eat insects and several species also eat berries.

Why is it called a brown thrasher?

The name thrasher may come from the bird's habit of thrashing about with its bill and tossing the leaves away - or maybe from its habit of thrashing insects and other prey items on hard ground to kill them. Thrashers also thresh the leaves and ground litter.

11 Thrasher bird Images

It can be tricky to glimpse a Brown Thrasher in a tangled mass of

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Brown Thrasher parent and fledgling Photo by Elizabeth McWilliams

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Brown Thrasher without its tail feathers Common birds Brown