Brown Thrasher
| Toxostoma rufum | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers) |
Toxostoma rufum
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers)
The state bird of Georgia made it into Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for the huge number of different song phrases one individual sang as recorded by Donald Kroodsma. In the same family with mockingbirds and catbirds, Brown Thrashers sing a long string of phrases including many imitations of other birds, the phrases usually sung in pairs.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Like a Box of Chocolates 2023
- What's the Name of That Song? 2022
- Spring Symphony 2022
- Spring Update 2021
- The Miracles of May 2021
- Spring Update 2021
- April Update 2021
- 2020 Duluth Christmas Bird Count 2020
- November Musings, Part 2 2020
- May in August 2020
- A Conversation with Don Kroodsma, Part 1: A Sense of Wonder 2020
- More about Brown Thrashers 2020
- Laura's Best Bird EVER! A Brown Thrasher and Oneupmanship over a Snarky Boss 2020
- What to Make of a Diminished Thing 2020
- Summertime, and the Livin's Not Easy 2020
- By the Dawn's Early Dark 2020
- Update: End of May 2020
- Spring Update 2020
- Migration Progression 2020
- Spring Is Springing! 2020
- Review: Song Sleuth, the bird song identification app 2017
- Review: Merlin, the Bird Identification App 2017
- The Evocative Power of Sound 2017
- Spring Update: Separating the MMMMs from the DDDDs. 2017
- New Mockingbird Research 2016
- Mornings in a Sharp-tailed Grouse Observation Blind 2016
- Review: Smart Phone Apps 2014
- Bird Song Primer, Part I 2012
- Twins and Double Yolks 2012
- Mystical Connections, Part II 2011
- New Mockingbird Research 2009
- Grief 2008
- Brown Thrashers 2006
- Tufted Titmouse (from Arkansas) 2006
- Brinckley! (from Arkansas) 2006
- Spring Warbler Walks 2005
- Interview with Don Kroodsma, Part 3: Sedge Wrens and Brown Thrashers 2005
- Gluttonous Hunting 2004
- Wintering Brown Thrashers 2004
- Christmas Bird Count 2003 summary 2003
- Christmas Bird Count 2003 2003
- Chickadees and Mealworms 2002
- Mork and Mindy the Baby Brown Thrashers 2002
- End of Spring 2000
- Bizarre winter weather, and Jim Baker 1999
- Cemetery Birds 1997
- Hummingbird and Oriole Feeders 1997
- Brown Thrasher (Placeholder) 1993
- Northern Oriole 1990
- Summertime 1989
- Cats 1989
- Baltimore Oriole 1989
- Attracting Birds in Late Spring 1989
- Attracting Birds in Spring 1989
- Birds of Ireland 1989
- Brown Thrasher 1988
- More Questions about Birds 1988
- Christmas Bird Count 1986
- Lousy Weather: Spring Update 1986