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 Brown thrasher thrashing the water in. out little water feature, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, May 19, 2025. Toxostoma rufum. Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers.

 In the hedge behind the water feature, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, April 18, 2025. Doing what it does best, thrashing through the leaves looking for things to eat. T oxostoma rufum It can be tricky to glimpse a Brown Thrasher in a tangled mass of shrubbery, and once you do you may wonder how such a boldly patterned, gangly bird could stay so hidden. Brown Thrashers wear a somewhat severe expression thanks to their heavy, slightly downcurved bill and staring yellow eyes, and they are the only thrasher species east of Texas. Brown Thrashers are exuberant singers, with one of the largest repertoires of any North American songbird.

Rondeau Provincial Park, May 31, 2012, Rondeau Provincial Park. Toxostoma rufum Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers. source - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/

Brown thrasher in the yard, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, May 26, 2020. Toxostoma rufum Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers. source -  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/

Brown thrasher, April 20, 2020, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Taken through the wonderful wildlife window. Have been hearing thrashers for a few days, this one showed up in our yard today. Toxostoma rufum Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers. source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Brown Thrasher, Sept 22, 2018, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Toxostoma rufum An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood.

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Sept 29, 2019. Another visitor to the water in the yard. Migration is slow and spotty but there are birds showing up. Toxostoma rufum An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood.

Brown thrasher, May 18, 2019, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Toxostoma rufum According to allaboutbirds.org. - Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers.

Editing 100's of photos from the spring and summer. This brown thrasher was a regular at the pond. Toxostoma rufum Both males and females help incubate the eggs and feed the young. Nestlings sometimes leave the nest fully feathered within nine days of hatching—earlier than either of their smaller relatives, the Northern Mockingbird and Gray Catbird. Shrubby habitats are popular hideouts for nest predators, which may explain why the thrashers fledge so quickly for birds of their size.

A brown thrasher had an energetic bath, actually 5 or 6 baths, in the pond today. The way the water surrounded him made me think of fireworks. I'll need to add water tomorrow. Toxostoma rufum An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood. Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers. source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/lifehistory

We have a pair of brown thrashers that come to our yard most days. We think they are nesting close by. Today they showed up together and one wasn't happy when the other tried to join them in the pond. Toxostoma rufum An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood. The oldest Brown Thrasher on record was at least 11 years, 11 months old. It was recaptured and then re-released at a Florida banding station.

Looks like this thrasher has been working out. No longer slim and sleek he looks ready to take on the bully birds Oddly enough it was feeding at a feeder. It was eating grapes from a mesh bag. Normally they are ground feeders and I haven't seen this behaviour before. He actually drove of a number of blue jays, definitely bully birds, and hogged the grapes. Toxostoma rufum An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood. Brown Thrashers are accomplished songsters that may sing more than 1,100 different song types and include imitations of other birds, including Chuck-will’s-widows, Wood Thrushes, and Northern Flickers. source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.