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Toxostoma rufum
Size & Shape 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. Color Pattern Brown Thrashers are foxy brown birds with heavy, dark streaking on their whitish underparts. The face is gray-brown and the wings show two black-and-white wingbars. They have bright-yellow eyes. Behavior Brown Thrashers skulk in shrubby tangles or forage on the ground below dense cover. They’re most obvious when they sing their loud songs from shrubs and treetops. The song is a complex string of many musical phrases (many copied from other birds’ songs, with each phrase typically sung twice before moving on). They also make a distinctive, harsh tsuck note.
Habitat Scrubby fields, dense regenerating woods, and forest edges are the primary habitats of Brown Thrashers. They rarely venture far from thick undergrowth into which they can easily retreat.
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thank you so much, I am new at this, and I will change it.
Nice find! The first image looks like a Carolina Wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus. The second and third pictures look like a Brown Thrasher to me. :-) You should make the first image into a separate spotting. :-)
It was definitely hard to try and catch this fellow to snap a picture. He is very fast, hops off before I could get a good shot. He showed up and I got these pictures, very photogenic.