Four kinds of look-alike bird species of three families - wood thrushes, brown thrashers, ovenbirds and Louisiana waterthrushes - nest in Lancaster County woodlands, but winter in Central and South ...

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) lives out its days in relative seclusion. Like the gray catbird, which has a similar fondness for thickets and shrubby areas, brown thrashers haunt areas of dense ...

At this time of year, brown thrashers venture onto our lawns. The thrashers are conspicuous at other times, as well, but it is now, with the young out of the nests, that thrashers really relax and ...

Reclusive, secretive and ground-dwelling can all be used to describe the brown thrasher, this week’s featured creature. I am revisiting these birds as I've had the pleasure of seeing them quite a few ...

If you should ever peer into a thicket and here a thrashing sound and see dead leaves flying in all directions, don’t be concerned. Most likely it is simply a brown thrasher on the feed. This large ...

Could you build a simple, cup-shaped bird nest, like that of a Northern cardinal, strong enough to withstand the vicissitudes of spring weather and hold three to five nestlings? I accepted that ...