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 ...

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 ...