The northern mockingbird is a well-known member of a family of birds called mimic thrushes. It lives here all year and, true to its name, imitates the songs of other ...

Reclusive, secretive and ground-dwelling can all be used to describe the brown thrasher, this week’s featured creature.

Name: Brown thrasher . ... Nesting habits: The thrasher builds a large nest in thick shrubs, often those with thorns. It's usually no more than 14 feet above the ground and often lower.

• Brown thrasher: Nest composed of twigs, dead leaves and other vegetation; may be in dense bush or thorny shrub or on ground. • Blue jay: Nest made of twigs, small roots, ...

Brown thrashers hop, ... Both build bulky, cup-like nests in low shrubs. Thrushes, however, are not mimics. Of the three mimics in the mockingbird family, ...

It’s been a banner year for brown thrashers at my home. In recent weeks, these large songbirds have provided plenty of entertainment by bringing their young to the feeders. They especially like ...

The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) is the state bird of Georgia, but they nest in my garden year after year and why wouldn’t they – there are birdbaths in every port, lots of shrubs for them ...

The Brown Thrashers are conspicuous due to their large size [9-12 inches]. With a wingspan of 11-13 inches, they are seen well as they dart low, barely undulating, in front of my car.

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 ...

Like numerous other bird lovers in spring and summer, I delight in watching our songbirds — cardinals, bluebirds, blue jays, brown thrashers — as they go about building nests, incubating eggs ...