Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
- HABITAT - Brown thrashers live among dense shrubs, thickets, brush, overgrown fields and open woodlands Their range is from southeastern Canada through eastern, central, and southeastern United States. The northern breeders go to southeastern United States during the winter.
- DIET - The Brown Thrasher eat ground-dwelling insects often found among the leaf litter, wild nuts, seeds and fruit.
- FACTS - Brown Thrashers are very secretive birds and are very difficult to approach most of the time. When approached, they often hide in the dense thickets and disappear out of sight.
- Brown thrashers can sing over 1,000 different song types, and are amazing imitators of other birds.