Many Columbians will get a glimpse of a brown thrasher this summer and will assume it is a female cardinal as it darts into shrubs and disappears into the foliage. The silhouettes are somewhat similar ...

Have you ever cleaned up one of your flower beds only to walk back out there to see it back in the very mess you just spent half the day cleaning up? I can’t begin to tell you the messes I have seen ...

The brown thrasher is a big, bright, beautiful bird with captivating yellow eyes. This particular bird landed on a dead tree branch about 20 feet in front of me. / PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up for ...

It was one of those stunning September mornings. The air was crisp, the sky was full of high clouds, and a light dew had fallen during the night. My walk through the meadow required a little care to ...

Whenever I am in one of those long stretches of highway and cell coverage is spotty, my mind often takes to rambling. Recently, on a drive a couple hours south on U.S. 441, I kept noticing the variety ...

For many people, birdwatching is done while speeding along an interstate highway or negotiating back roads across the Lehigh Valley or Poconos. It’s not the recommended way to enjoy nature but keeping ...

Description: The brown thrasher is a large bird, 9 to 12 inches long with a reddish brown upper body and a white belly streaked with brown. Although it's fairly common, it tends to be inconspicuous ...

"This afternoon brown thrashers are very numerous and musical. It is a bird that appears to make a business of singing for its own amusement. There is great variety in its strains." -- Henry David ...

We examined the potential functions of old nests in a population of Brown Thrashers (Toxostoma rufum) nesting on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area in northeastern Kansas. We determined whether ...

While ambling aimlessly along wooded trails at Kleb Woods County Park near Tomball, I glimpsed a brown thrasher rustling softly in the brushy understory. Had it not been for the bird's gleaming orange ...