I heard the paired notes of a singing male brown thrasher on Saturday, March 29, confirming the return of this large songbird. The thrasher was singing from a dead blue spruce tree surrounded by a ...

It often builds its nest within a cholla cactus ... Sexes similar. A largish, pale brown thrasher with uniform brown upperparts and round, somewhat blurry spots on the underparts.

Animals react with a “fight or flight” response. No emotion. Given an attack, they fight if they can. Given odds too great, ...